Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. during World War II, three generations of TIME correspondents have dogged the footsteps of this taciturn, publicity-shy diplomat. In Washington, at the United Nations and during almost every East-West crisis, reporters have waited, usually in vain, for the impenetrable Gromyko mask to slip...
...agents working the 3 p.m.-to-11 p.m. shift rounded up 155 aliens and took them to a detention center. INS guards then put the pollos aboard buses, drove them to a border crossing and herded them through a wire gate back into Mexico. Nearly all would try to slip across the border again, many only hours later the same night. They would keep coming until they eventually escaped to pursue the irresistible lure of jobs that are unavailable in Mexico. Says Alan Eliason, chief of border patrols in that section of California: "We are overwhelmed. Congress has to come...
...which he exonerates the comedian of involvement in a starlet's death, spent three years researching In God's Name. Still, the theory is hardly fresh. An even more astounding tale swirled about the Vatican immediately after John Paul I died: that the first attempt to slip the Pope a poisoned cup of tea had gone awry and killed a guest instead. Moreover, there was nothing unusual about the lack of an autopsy after John Paul I's death: autopsies are never performed on Popes...
...recent meetings, Vellucci has been noticeably irritated as he watches the council power slip from his grasp. He continually reminds Sullivan that certain controversial legislation requires six votes in council rather than five...
...ruckus my sophomore year over admitting girls to full-membership in the Dramatic Club Full membership was turned down (the movement was led by boys and girls), despite the talented and committed group of girls in the productions. We had very high standards and were critical of slip-shod effort...