Word: slips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cleveland Browns, with their leaky defense starting to give way, will slip to third. Frank Ryan and Jimmy Brown will see to it that the Browns score plenty, but any team in the league could crack the defense...
...vote against the substitute. So it appears that the opposition of conservatives to home rule, resentment at the arm-twisting used by the Administration to bring the bill to the floor, and the promotion of Lawrence O'Brien have permitted Washington's best chance ever for self-government to slip away. It may seem inevitable now that home rule will come some day, but it seemed just as inevitable in take the bill away from the District Committee. Just when the petition was within two votes of success, 10 names were withdrawn. Things have a way of disintegrating in Washington...
...press conference, Manry said that he plans to go back to the copy desk but has no intention of letting fame slip by. Besides writing articles for the paper on his voyage, he will turn out a book. The title, he added, will not be The Old Manry...
...time the clay track was the consistency of soft fudge. Unlike flat-racing thoroughbreds, who plant their hoofs, then pick them straight up-and often revel in the softer footing of an "off" track-trotters slide their hoofs slightly forward each time they take a stride; they tend to slip and get mired in the mud. That is exactly what happened to Noble Victory: twice in the three-heat race, he broke stride; in the third heat, the best he could do was third. "He seemed like he was anchored," said Dancer disgustedly. "He just couldn't handle...
...elastic long John ($5.95) for use under slacks; Warner's has put a tiger's stripes on its tank suit ($19), also offers a cobra-skin pattern if stripes don't suit. Most stylish are the Courreges-inspired underpinnings of Formfit-Rogers. The full slip ($9), in white with black banding, can easily double as a nightdress or a playdress...