Word: slips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senior captain Todd Lundy and junior Andy Chaikovsky leave this morning for Athens, Ga., where they will slip in a day of practice before competing in the NCAA tennis championships...
Though the job had been well planned and executed, too many people were involved to ensure escape and retirement to the good, respectable life. The major slip-up occurred when the man hired to clean up the evidence at the farmhouse did not get there before the police. An alert detective rightly interpreted the gang's parting warning to their victims ("Don't move for half an hour") as meaning that the robbers and the unwieldy sacks of cash were concealed in the vicinity...
...seems a safe bet in his own case, since no one expects any changes in the rigid party leadership any time soon. But if the party continues to learn nothing and forget nothing about the changing shape of France's ever more middle class electorate, it could well slip a few more points when the next election rolls around...
...wife was a psychology major. She still thinks a Freudian slip is something you wear under a transparent dress... All these college students are running around these days, you know with the hair and everything, listening to the Beatles and everything--it's getting so you can't tell the boys from the girls...And now my daughter starts telling me about this "pre-marital sex" business. The neighborhood where I grew up was so rough that my wife doesn't even believe in post-marital sex...No Respect...And that's another thing...Kids today are so spoiled...
...late K'ang Sheng, onetime internal security boss. The minigang members have also been blasted by the Teng-controlled People's Daily, which has called them "hyenas, wolfish animals." The four, along with other backers of Mme. Mao, have also been attacked as the "wind faction," "slip-away faction" and "coverup faction." Meaning: they have bent with the wind, crept away from difficulties and concealed their crimes...