Word: slips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Better Half. These confident words could not have come at a better time for the U.S. economy. For weeks past, executives in many areas of U.S. business have been increasingly outspoken in their fears that 1962 may slip by without bringing them the really strong recovery they had expected after last year's recession. By contrast, Detroit looks forward tc a year in which auto sales, including foreign imports, seem likely to hit at least 6,700,000 cars-a figure second only to 1955's record 7,170,000. Since the auto industry and its suppliers account...
...swiftly as they appeared, the Viet Cong vanish. The regulars slip into the jungle, taking with them the prisoners, guns, munitions and medical supplies they have captured. The popular forces vanish, too, going back to their villages and resuming the role of ignorant peasants who have seen nothing and heard nothing. The regional troops remain long enough to cover the withdrawal by ambushing rescue columns, mining the roads, littering the jungle trails and footpaths with concealed and deadly panjis-sharpened, poisoned bamboo spikes that stab through the soles of unwary pursuers...
...only be a baby sitter, but her appetites lead straight back to the nursery, and her cotton candy dress scarcely hides her wickedness. "I'm not dirty," she coaxes, pulling off her slip. "I'm full of womanly feelings." Then, in a skelter of pillows, the play's moral rings down on her and she dies in an athletic attempt to seduce the hothouse boy she has her eye on. But as played by Nymphet Barbara Harris, she conquers whole audiences night after night, making Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet...
Absent, too, was dapper, Paris-born Baron Nicolas De Gunzburg, 57, who. in this fashionable game of musical chairs, remains firmly seated behind his desk as fashion editor of Vogue. Nicky has sat there for 13 years, and no mere slip of a woman is likely to replace...
...then, the bulls believe, potato prices will be up to $5 to $6 per hundredweight, leaving them a fat profit on their future contracts. The bears, who sold the bulls their contracts, are betting just as firmly that there are plenty of spuds in Maine and that prices will slip below $1.50 per hundredweight by May 14. This would leave the bears with a profit of up to $1.70 per hundredweight...