Word: slips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drum as duty on any of a hundred other routine tin-can patrols. In this case, the mission of the Maddox was mainly to show the U.S. flag and keep a casual lookout for Communist gun runners or seaborne Red guerrilla cadres. Occasionally the Maddox would slip up to within 13 miles of the Communist mainland, set her radar to sniffing the coast. But the real challenge to her sailors was to stay awake on lonely watches. Few of them even thought about combat; most, in fact, were still in grade school when the Maddox last came under Communist gunfire...
Fast Payoff. "Numbers" is the poor Negroes' reach for the pot of gold, and 100,000 of them slip nickels and dimes to "runners" each day in the hope that their three-digit number will come up for a 600-to-1 payoff. Otherwise known as the policy racket, the numbers game drains Harlem of $50 million a year, but it also provides a living for 15,000 runners and controllers. Negro stores abound with code books advising that if you have dreamed about the police you should bet the number 782; about cats, 578; about adultery...
...departing refugees were able to slip some money out of Burma before Ne Win plugged all the loopholes...
...clubhouse for the popping of the corks. There stood "Champagne Tony" Lema at last week's Cleveland Open, 15 under par, with just a one-foot putt between him and $20,000-and everybody knows that golf pros do not miss one-foot putts. But there was a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. Ever so casually, Tony stepped up to the ball. Ever so casually, he pushed it right around the hole...
...company, an airline and even a chain of hotels to serve them. But until recently, it got a very small profit return on these vast assets; it allowed its operations to become antiquated, competing air and highway traffic to steal away earnings and its ships, hotels and airline to slip into the red. Even worse, it sold off or leased much of its 25 million acres of valuable oil, gas and mineral and timber land, largely because it was reluctant to compete directly with some of its own freight customers...