Word: slips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truer lady than those who only appear to be. She is a yielding Eliza, melting over a bowl of soap "smelling like primroses" but she is also a Liza quick to assert her own worth. "I'm a good girl, I am," Eliza repeatedly tells Higgins. And with a slip into the old accent or a beautifully rolled letter "r" that is a hint too beautifully rolled, Moynihan welds the link between the new kind of good girl...
During the last part of the first half, play evened out. The Crimson came as close to scoring as they would all day when John Williams crossed the goal line, only to have the ball slip out of his hands and through the endzone before he could put the pigskin down...
Herold did not help his own cause when, just 49 seconds later, he let a ball slip off his chest, presenting Tiger Rick Raber with an open net scoring opportunity that he was more than glad to accept...
...entries in the bulging lexicon of international diplomacy are so freighted with emotion and precise, almost lapidary meaning as the code words and phrases dealing with the Arab-Israeli dispute. As Jimmy Carter has learned, a slip in the use of the Middle East's special shorthand can cause rumblings round the world. Some key terms...
...Dayan's orders, the luncheon was closed to the press. Some reporters tried to listen through cracks in the door, but they were quickly ushered away. TIME'S Chicago bureau chief Benjamin Cate managed to slip into the Blue Max Room's projection booth, from which he heard most of Dayan's 20-minute pep rally before being spotted by an Israeli security man and shooed away. Cate reported that the Dayan behind closed doors was much more the hard-nosed warrior than the cautious diplomat. His message was clear and tough, and he had some...