Word: slips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feminine mysteries are essentially inexpressible, and writers who try to express them slip generally into soap opera or a sort of exquisite silliness. Author Godden does neither, and in this film, which clings to her theme and hues to her mood as the clear peel colors and cleaves to a plum, the camera seems at moments to enlarge and lay bare on the screen the inmost, intimate mystery of maturation. Too often the view is obscured by the arabesques of an intricate and suspensefully entertaining plot, but often enough the onlooker is left quietly alone with Actress York...
...possible. Perhaps the non-aligned states like the Russians more than they do the United States and therefore are less disposed to censure Soviet policies. Many of them certainly have good ideological reasons for such a preference. Tito and Castro are avowed communists, and some neutrals with colonial memories slip easily into a Leninist conception of capitalist states as inherently exploitative and aggressive in their foreign policies...
Indestructible Bones. Whenever word watchers spotted a new usage, editors filled out a "citation slip"-6,200,000 in all-to record its frequency and nuances. Words that got enough "cits" (pronounced sites) were discussed with 'Merriam's 200 outside consultants, who cover every field, from Knots and Logic. Mosses and Liverworts, to Cocktails and Girl Guiding. Their expert opinion clarified each new definition...
...outstanding skipper in Bill Cox, Jr., and two other excellent men, Spencer Kellogg and Ed Greenberg, is nearly everybody's favorite to defeat the Crimson team of Carter Ford, Mike Lehmann and Peter Farrow. A strong contingent of Yalies headed by New England Monotype Champion Bob Spitz could slip by Harvard to gain second, however...
...Orleans, where 400 refugees are clustered, an architect works in a shipyard, a former gentleman farmer loads milk cans in a dairy, and a lawyer is a $50-a-week warehouse checker. "I have to go on," the lawyer says. "With a family of four, I cannot slip...