Word: slips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presence in New York City, however, made nervous wrecks of police and security officials. A couple of anti-Tito Yugoslavs managed to slip into the Waldorf-Astoria and make their way to Tito's 35th floor-where they were promptly arrested. At another point, five pickets ran into three Tito aides; in the scuffle, one of Tito's men ended up with a bruised jaw. And outside the Waldorf, six demonstrators paraded in Halloween skeleton costumes, hauling a chariot bearing skeletons and a whip-cracking man dressed as Tito. Angered, Tito canceled a reception for 1,200 guests...
Zoologist Dieter Matthes of West Germany's Erlangen University has now proved that the males of the Malachiidae, a family of tiny beetles usually found in the tropics, entice the females first with a tarty nectar, then surreptitiously slip them an aphrodisiac to loosen their inhibitions...
Today only 26 stamps are known to exist of that first issue of 500 bearing Mr. Barnard's inconsequential slip, which made a philatelic byword out of the phrase "Post Office Mauritius." The one-and twopenny samples that were up for auction last week by the London firm of Robson Lowe, Ltd. had left Mauritius on a letter to a wine merchant in Bordeaux (it took 85 days to get there). As well as being rare, they were in excellent condition. So when the bidding reached ?27,500, Raymond H. Weill, a New Orleans dealer, made his only...
...brigades in Latin America and Africa, and there finds that the greater need is for cures and classes; today the Army operates 857 schools and 210 medical centers in 86 countries. Affluence has not by any means rendered the Army obsolete. "Even in the welfare state, some people slip through the net," the General says. "As long as there are human beings, there will be human needs that can only be handled on a person-to-person basis...
...other person cannot. If the Council were trying to read our hearts, they should at least recognize that they may have read them incorrectly. And besides, the Council should be concerned with our constitution as presented and not with what we may or may not be thinking. This slip on the part of the Council evidently derives from a tradition of thinking in terms of races...