Word: slips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aggravating Strain. The upshot: Chase Econometrics, a private research firm, forecasts that economic expansion in 12 major nations will slow, on average, from 5.5% this year to 4.5% in 1977. In Europe, it predicts, growth will slip from an already modest 4.2% in 1976 to 3.9% next year. While such a slowdown would still be a long way from outright recession, it would aggravate already serious commercial and political strains throughout the non-Communist world...
There were small signs that the mantle was already beginning to slip. As Ford arrived in Palm Springs, his normally efficient advancemen forgot to ask a high school band to greet him with Hail to the Chief. They played, instead, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever...
Israel's failure to deal with the Palestinian problem could represent miscalculation. Israel may be allowing another big opportunity to slip by. The Palestinian problem essentially began with the creation of the state of Israel and it has been perpetuated as a result of active manipulation by Arab leaders and by the refusal on the part of Israel to take any initiative to reach a resolution. The problem wasn't "resolved" during the Lebanese war and will not be resolved in the future by violent means: that message was made abundantly clear by the cease-fire imposed by the Saudi...
...Pagliaro slip on second down sent the ball back to the five, but on the next play the Eli sensation swept right end for the touchdown...
...debates with the Peanut had gone fairly well, he thought, though a small slip was costly. The reference to Cornell as being "under Harvard's domination" was a mistake, and the backlash from the misstatement was severe. Upset Ithaca partisans cast ballots against Restic in a 9-3 proportion, and the loss in that precinct was a surprise to all prognosticators...