Word: slips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking two weeks ago on a television program, Percy's campaign manager said exuberantly that his man was the best candidate for "governor of the United States." Realizing his slip, he smiled knowingly and went on. But tomorrow the smiles will probably be gone and Percy's ambition for the Presidency temporarily quelled. Percy will undoubtedly blame Goldwater for his defeat, but if Kerner's victory is a large as predicted, others will look elsewhere for explanations. And the failure of a moderate Republican to find any issue with which to challenge his opponent will be prominent among them...
...become the poor girl's junior year abroad -a way to spend time in another country while Mother rests easy, secure in the knowledge that her daughter is not alone in a strange land. Girls from 15 to 30, usually listed as students and therefore technically not workers, slip comfort ably past immigration roadblocks and working restrictions even in countries that jealously repel foreigners who might take jobs away from natives...
...image--may serve to limit his future role in active politics. If he loses, he does not seem the sort of man who will become an active voice for moderate Republicanism: at heart, he is not a crusader. Yet it appears equally unlikely that Ken Keating will slip silently into oblivion. Somewhere, somehow, he will remain in public service...
Bobby Baker's name remained the one that Barry mentioned most often and most scornfully. Early in the week, while he was addressing some 15,000 people in downtown Des Moines, Iowa's Republican Senator Bourke Hickenlooper handed him a slip of paper. Written on it was news of an announcement that a Democratic-controlled Senate committee, assigned to continue the investigation of the Baker case, had decided that it would hold no more hearings until after Election Day. Barry's face purpled...
...administrative slip-up made last Spring has intensified the problem in the Government Department. Due to a confusing application blank, many juniors did not make the request for credit tutorial which is required, and consequently found themselves without tutors this fall. The Department, taken aback by the 30 juniors who pounded on the door at the start of the year, has tried to accommodate as many of them as possible. It pressed every one of its teaching fellows to carry a maximum teaching load and thus found tutors for 14 of the late applicants. But it could not help those...