Word: slips
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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...
...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...
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...
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...
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...