Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...picks up a stack of mail, accumulated during the past week while she was in Los Angeles speaking at an anti-nuclear rally and lets it slip back down through her fingers. "Harvard is only incidental to what I want to do," she says. "But my work is my life. Uranium and coal mining are the two most crucial issues Indians have to deal with. Because when you talk about repression, you talk about genocide, you talk about sterilization of Indian women, it all ties back to these resources. They wouldn't be doing this to us otherwise...
...school desegregation, the rise of the civil rights movement and America's national efforts to redress racial inequality and lack of opportunity. But it was not well put, and Carter quickly riposted that those who suffered discrmination "certainly knew we had a race problem." Carter made one verbal slip: he thanked the residents of Ohio for being hospitable "during these last few hours in my life," causing some jocular aides to wonder if he was about to fall on his sword. Independent Candidate John Anderson was not invited to the debate but voiced his views on a malfunctioning hookup...
...Browns move into a tie with Houston for the AFCWest lead, at 6-3 and the Bears slip back to 3-6 in the NFC Central...
...Both Carter and Reagan would certainly woo the Illinois congressman, as they would the electors them-selves, who, after all, are not forced by the Constitution to vote for the candidate they promised to support. (Many states have passed laws to rein in rebellious electors, but they do occasionally slip away.) a dramatic historic event which would result in change," says Edward C. Banfield, Markham Professor of Government and an expert on American political reform. "Apprehensions about the electoral college system that have existed, but not in a significant way, will be acted...
...melodrama similar in style, if not in score, to Poulenc's La Voix Humaine. The setting is a grim Depression flat. Soprano Marilyn Zschau is preparing breakfast for her husband before leaving for her own job as a waitress. While she flops around the room in her slip, she carries on a one-way conversation with the silent and unseen spouse as he gets up and goes into the bathroom to shave...