Word: slips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were big enough to be trapped in fine porcelain filters, devised by Pasteur's assistant Charles Chamberland, and to be seen under the 19th century light microscope. It was a temperamental Dutch botanist, Martinus Beijerinck (1851-1931), who found that whatever caused mosaic disease in tobacco plants could slip through the minute pores of these filters. In 1897 he concluded that this infectious, filter-passing fluid was a "filterable virus." The word virus had been loosely used for centuries to denote any "poison" that caused infectious disease...
Lehmann did not slip by the Coast Guard boat until the finish line was about 25 yards away, but by doing so he raised Harvard's point score enough to swing the cumulative total...
...essays on Harlem and the South from merely well-done jobs to truly polished jewels. Most of the essays on problems of the American Negro are not so exceptional; in them, Baldwin shows himself to be no more than a straightforward, precise, writer; but the emotion which can slip into his words is sometimes surprising, and his work occasionally produces moments of peculiar power...
...from the Former Naval Person himself, now 86. "I shall be staying only a half hour, my dear," said Sir Winston, who had just got over a slight cold. But as he sipped champagne and surveyed the 200 dancers in the ballroom, Sir Winston let his first half hour slip by, then another and most of a third. At 12:20 a.m. he finally kissed his granddaughter good night, steered Lady Churchill into an elevator and headed for home, 57 minutes behind schedule...
...effect of unexpectation. Schoolgirls soon accept the idea that to be married is to be satisfied with life. Schools steer girls away from science and math because "you won't need it." Girls more than ever go to college "not to pursue learning but to learn pursuing." They slip, in the phrase of Anthropologist Margaret Mead, into "a kind of fur-lined domesticity...