Word: slips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dinner was partly a cover to allow more than 100 guests to slip into the White House for a surprise party that Ford had engineered, with great delight, for his wife. It was their last evening of dancing in the marble foyer. It was merry but laced with nostalgia...
...bosses at Harte-Hanks Newspapers Inc. set certain goals and promised him a bonus if he met them ($6,800 if he did well, $12,000 if he did very well). But by fall the economy turned sour, lots of readers canceled their subscriptions, and advertising began to slip. Ginn's bonus was in jeopardy. What should...
...want to stop. Whether it is Rhodesia, Angola or Lebanon, they want someone to pay them and point them. The bizarre rock star David Bowie put words in their mouths in a frightening ditty in 1972: "It seems the peacefuls stopped the war/Left generals squashed and stifled/But I'll slip about again tonight/'Cause they haven't taken back my rifle...
Just to make certain that there are no embarrassing slip-ups?28 minutes of silence is acceptable, perhaps even desirable, in a presidential debate, but the Super Bowl is serious business?NBC Executive Producer Scotty Connal a month ago called together the 87 members of his game crew for training sessions. (The remaining 78 will handle the pre-game show only.) By kickoff, they will work together as cohesively as the teams on the field, and maybe a lot more so. As a shining example, the television crew will have the sacrifice of CBS Sportscaster Jack Whitaker, who dieted...
...think John Prine would know. It was the strangling to death in a claustrophobic small town, the desperation of it--and not some quiet desperation, either. It was as real and loud as the shout from Elvin Anderson's yelping GT-60 8.20s as he went slip-sliding into that stationwagon. But home, for me and for Prine, is a place of contradictions, a place where true natural beauty can give away around the next turn to the ugly slash of a strip mine, where the people seem more alive and you can get killed as easy as next...