Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press members too generally slip into covering official spokesmen without going behind what the spokesmen are saying," said Wicker. "Reporters who don't know what they're talking about rely on spokesmen who usually inform them self-servingly...
...would favor his visitors with a song or two but that he had to save himself because he was due in New York City next day to play at the Washington Square Church, 135 West 4th Street. He said when he is in New York, he likes to slip out on the street and play a tune or two because you can pick up cash quickly that way. Then he got his guitar, an expensive Martin, and after making sure there were no women in earshot, he swung into Catfish Blues, a song so lowdown nasty he said...
Manipulation of the overseers election, censorship of the CUE Guide, not to mention turning the other eye while minority concerns slip through the cracks, are all uglier marks in the landscape of University policy than ever the shanties could have been in the Yard. A good listener like Jewett is only a first step...
...tactical triumph for the Government, Judge Earl Carroll barred all testimony on the religious and humanitarian motives behind the defendants' actions. Sanctuary lawyers nonetheless managed to slip several such references into testimony, and they plan to cite Carroll's ruling when they appeal the verdict. Prosecutor Reno, grandson of a Methodist preacher, faced some obstacles. He had the unenviable task of portraying as criminals a group of pious Good Samaritans (who held a prayer meeting after the jury announced its verdicts). One of the 15 Central Americans summoned to the stand by Reno, for instance, described a defendant...
Getting fired for shooting off his mouth is nothing new to Michael Pillsbury, who until last week was the Defense Department's assistant under secretary for policy planning. Although he had been sacked from two other jobs, Pillsbury's latest pink slip, issued for allegedly telling reporters that the Administration had begun supplying rebels in Afghanistan and Angola with U.S.-made Stinger missiles, disturbed civil libertarians. The firing was based partly on Pillsbury's answers to questions on a polygraph test. The case has also been referred to the Justice Department, apparently as a stern message about the Reagan Administration...