Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Slip Sliding Away...
Kraft isn't the only Western journalist to misunderstand and misportray Khomeini Richard Reeves, in a long story for The New Yorker on Pakistan last October, managed to slip in this gem: "Ayatollah Khomeini (or Imam Khomeini; the title applies to all Shia leaders...
...Yankers have just dropped three straight to the Red Son and with a boss like George Steinbrenner, the pink slip is probably in the mail...
Ralph: I'm glad you brought that up, dearest. Senator Alfonse D'Amato, the fellow Gerry might run against, says he prefers Coke now, because of the Ferraro ad. This means D'Amato and Ferraro could split the cola vote, and a third-party, 7-Up candidate might slip into the Senate. I needn't tell you what an uncola Senator may do to the two-cola political system as we know it. Before you know it, Orange Crush and Yoo-Hoo will have their own Senators...
...Chinese Foreign Ministry acknowledged the mistake. South Korean Minister of Culture Lee Won Hong also publicly stressed that there had been "no political motives" involved in the incident and referred vaguely to a "simple scuffle" on board. By tiptoeing around the word mutiny, he helped his government slip out of the potentially embarrassing situation of having to put the mutinous crewmen on trial...