Word: slips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...negotiate a settlement on black majority rule, warned the terrorists not to go too far. Killing innocent tourists, he said, "can only unleash forces which could have far-reaching effects." Increasingly, South Africans were worried about the growing Rhodesian crisis. Editorialized Johannesburg's Rand Daily Mail: "Having let slip one chance after another of reaching an accommodation with more moderate black leaders, Rhodesia's whites seem to have made the tragic choice of facing black nationalism over the barrel of a gun rather than the conference table. The downhill road toward a race war in Rhodesia is becoming...
Whatever a woman's size or shape, decolletage can slip into disaster for those into strapless chic. The drawstrings and elastic used to hold the garb up are not fall-safe. Arleen Sorkin, a Washington student, remembers the night her strapless turned topless in a Manhattan nightclub. Recalls she with horror: "I ran to the bathroom and cried. And I don't think my date ever recovered." Sorkin, however, was quickly on top of the situation and now owns five strapless outfits...
...times. "Jimmy Carter is a positive and upward and loving candidate," observes former Mississippi Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Gil Carmichael. "His spiritual issue is probably one of the best gut issues." Yet Carter's course is also hazardous. He has so stressed his honesty, freshness and reasonableness that any slip into a clear deception or another heated controversy might seem a betrayal. His "ethnic purity" remark was a precarious slip, but he seems to have weathered that mistake (see story page...
...court proceedings were not bad enough, there have been restrictions in effect this spring limiting the use of fields at Soldiers Field. For a while a directive from Athletic Director Robert Watson's office required a permission slip for undergraduates to use available softball fields...
...film also tells us little about the role and modus operandi of the press. We see some of the infighting that goes on in the editor's meeting at The Washington Post, as the metro editor struggles to keep the Watergate story for his department rather than let it slip away to the national news department. For most of the film--in the absence of any really bad guys--most of the audience's rancor and frustration is directed at the brass on The Post who keep insisting on more facts, more names and more confirmations...