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Word: slips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Some papers were destroyed in the routine processing of old files," explained Harvard's Deputy General Counsel Martin Michaelson, who characterized the problem as an "administrative slip...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: THE BEST OF 1986 | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...Alan Bond, after holding the yachting crown since 1851, the longest winning streak in sport. America II's loss last week was the final disappointment in a $15 million, three-year drive to recapture the Cup. As a stunned Skipper John Kolius, 35, piloted America II back to its slip after the race with New Zealand, crew members wept. "How would you feel," asked Kolius, "if you called into work tomorrow morning and it wasn't there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Victory for Plastic Fantastic | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

After watching his team slip all over the ragged ice, Harvard Coach Bill Cleary said, "I'm not talking out of school to say that we weren't ready to play tonight...

Author: By Nick Wurf, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Escape Bruins' Lair, 3-2 | 12/11/1986 | See Source »

With 10 minutes left in the second period, Bourbeau took the puck into the left corner. He was smothered by Raider defensemen, but managed to slip a pass to Young in front of the Colgate...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Undefeated Icemen Brush by Colgate, 5-2 | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

That is also a good way to describe The Far Side, an absurdist, sometimes sinister world where animals do the unnatural (i.e., act like humans) and often trump mankind along the way. A female moose, in a slip and curlers, hands the phone to her husband, sitting in his easy chair. "It's the call of the wild," she says. As a woman crouches to feed nuts to two squirrels, one of the furry creatures says to his companion, "I can't stand it . . . They're so cute when they sit like that." Larson's humans fare no better when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: All Creatures Weird and Funny | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

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