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Word: slips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even much of it, but some hours have to be claimed as one's own if time is to have value and not mere use. The missed appointments are with oneself. Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man sought to live on the nodes of time so that he might "slip into the breaks and look around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Where Is Our Dover Beach? | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

...hand held. Once again, there are Beta and VHS versions. The VHS will record up to 20 minutes of video and sound on a single, tiny cassette. To watch the minimovie, the viewer can plug the camcorder directly into a television set or slip the miniature tape into an adapter that will play it back on a conventional VHS recorder. In contrast, the Beta version will record up to two hours on a standard Beta tape, but it cannot be used to play back the cassette. The chief advantage of the VHS camcorder, sold by Zenith and JVC, is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Decisions, Decisions | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

...head. While up on the Hill the red cheeked St. Tip Prepares for his final tiff with the Gip. Here is Cambridge the season is merry as ever. Full of papers unwritten and students unclever. And as dining halls shut and the dorms get much colder. The deadlines slip by, growing older and older. But though papers be late and our grades more displeasin', We couldn't forget our own gift list this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Holiday Ode | 12/18/1984 | See Source »

...very cheap. For just 1% of the cost of Star Wars, you could have a set of spectacular missions from now to the beginning of the next century. The answer to the origins of the universe might be within our grasp. It would be a shame to let it slip away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space,;Over Stories: Roaming the High Frontier | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

...seats will reduce the G.O.P. majority to 53 to 47. Moreover, the ideological tilt will be even greater than the simple partisan tally indicates, since the two lost Republican seats are going, in effect, to liberal Democrats. Because of the shift, the Senate is more likely to slip back under Democratic sway in 1986, when almost twice as many Republicans as Democrats will be running for reelection. The results also showed the rise to power of a new generation. Three of the five freshman Democratic Senators-John Kerry of Massachusetts, Tom Harkin of Iowa and Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election '84: The Senate: Landslide or No, The G.O.P. Margin Shrinks | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

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