Word: slips
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lord Hailsham) replied to a heckler in Plymouth: "If you can tell me there are no adulterers on the Front Bench of the Labour Party you can talk to me about Profumo." Other indiscretions came from R.A. Butler, the Conservative foreign secretary, who told a reporter, "Things might start slipping in the last days. They won't slip toward...
...then he makes clear that this certainly does not include Goldwater's negative stands on the civil rights bill, test-ban treaty and general federal aid to education. He has agreed to campaign with Goldwater in the most Republican areas of the state, but Taft plans to slip quietly away from Barry in those regions where he hopes to pick up non-G.O.P. votes...
...outfit; the girl who can manage a skillful blend of dots with stripes, checks with tweeds, and plaids with prints, plus patterned stockings, may seem something of an eyesore off campus, but no matter-around the quad she's the sweetheart of Sigma Chi. For night, U.C.L.A. students slip into something appropriate to "the Discothèque Look"-sleeveless jumpers made sometimes of tweed but more often of velours, bare on top and ruffled at the bottom, the most frugable little nothings around...
...next day more mobs formed, and Negroes continued to slip inside stores, rush out with merchandise. Mayor James Tate invoked an 1850 law to ban everyone not on a valid, pressing errand from the streets in a 125-block area. Some 300 state troopers also stood by. Some semblance of order was restored, but officials were prepared for more violence at any moment...
...tour de technique, the show is fascinating. Sometimes an actor shows up on the stage, sometimes on one of the screens. Once, when the hero tries to find him, the villain darts elusively from one screen to another. Sometimes the live actors slip behind the main screen, which is transparent, and appear to play parts in the picture. The actors in the picture meanwhile play parts on the stage. When the live actors sing at them, they sing back. Sometimes the same figure sings from three screens at once. Sometimes each screen is a different color. Sometimes all are black...