Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commonly accepted view of the region's geology is that the plate bearing the African continent is generally pushing north and trying to slip under the Eurasian plate. That movement, under way for millions of years, created the Alps and has helped to stoke such volcanoes as Sicily's Mount Etna. The devastating 7.2 quake that leveled the Algerian city of El Asnam nearly two months ago, killing more than 2,500, occurred almost precisely at one of the points where the African and Eurasian plates are believed to be thrusting against each other. But the Italian peninsula...
Freshman winger Diane Hurley put Harvard on the scoreboard for the first time this season, unleashing a sizzling wrist shot from the left side at 6:28 of the first period. Hurley took a feed from Amy Spaulding and faked a pass to slip around the Huskie defenseman for the open shot...
...among Ivy League divers. Paul Opperman, Columbia's number one entrant gave Mule a run for his money on the low board, but couldn't quite catch the Princeton, N.J., native. Mechanical execution of the first and required forward dive afforded Mule the narrow margin that allowed him to slip past Opperman...
Later, with Rosalynn absent-unaccountably, she had not been told about the meeting-Nancy talked to Carter in the Oval Office while her husband stood awkwardly by, BURNETT-CONTACT his eyes wandering aimlessly about the room. Nancy conversed intently about the furniture arrangement, the slip covers, the bibelots scattered around, already seeming to be rearranging them in her mind...
...BLUSHING, tittered a tabloid. An other coyly headlined: LADY DIANA'S SLIP...