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Word: slips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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What seems to be happening. Dean Fox said this week, is that students seek excuses when they're feeling slightly under the weather, instead of using the absence slip as the abnormal route it once...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Fighting An Excuse Epidemic | 9/24/1977 | See Source »

...Bell's slip shows in a San Antonio courtroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Phone Calls and Philandering | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...chance event as the appearance of a convenient parking space was such a sign to Berkowitz. He did choose victims whom he considered "pretty," claiming he favored the Queens borough for a time because "Queens girls are prettier." He did not walk casually away from the murder sites and slip into the dark. "I ran like hell." He revisited at least two of the scenes of his crimes and tried to find the grave of his first victim, Donna Lauria, 18, whom he had not known but for whom he seemed to develop a posthumous affection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Sam Told Me To Do It... Sam Is the Devil | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

Carter was also impressed by Pentagon reports that despite the B-1's speed of up to 1,320 m.p.h. and its ability to slip under enemy radar defenses, weapons advances would probably make it vulnerable to Soviet defenses by the 1980s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Carter's Big Decision: Down Goes the B-1, Here Comes the Cruise | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

...missiles essentially amount to updated versions of the Nazis' World War II buzz bombs: small, pilotless jet planes that can be launched from land, ships or planes. The Air Force's cruise missiles fly at 550 m.p.h. about 50 ft. above the ground. That enables them to slip under the Soviets' line-of-sight radar to deliver 200-kiloton nuclear warheads with astounding accuracy-within 100 ft. of their targets. One version, the ALCM-A (for air-launched cruise missile), has a range of 750 miles. A second version, the ALCM-B, has extra fuel tanks that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: B-1 v. B-52: the Strategic Factors | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

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