Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only six weeks to get his message across to a public that had barely heard of him before the Iowa caucuses (in early February, only 15% of Democratic voters could name him as a candidate). The intense magnification of instant celebrity made even Hart's slightest slip look like a lurch and sent voters scurrying into the safer, more familiar embrace of Mondale...
...operation might have been torn from the pages of the Little Drummer Girl, John le Carré's Middle Eastern thriller. Three young Palestinian terrorists slip across the Lebanese border into Israel, where a man with a Lebanese passport and a woman with one from the U.S. supply them with weapons. Then, on a sunny morning last week, the three drive a rented red Autobianchi up crowded King George V Street in West Jerusalem. Two of them enter a sporting-goods store and, in Arab-accented English, nervously ask to try on some jeans...
Both Harvard and boats have been together for barely a week and four of the varsity oarsmen and their cox are sophomores (freshmen are ineligible for Ivy League varsity crew competition): In fast, Fitzgerald's only qualm about the contest was that "we let Penn slip by us for fourth place...
...writings by Nobel laureates always cause a stir of comment, but this novel by Author William Golding arrives in the slip stream of controversy as well. The decision last fall by the Swedish Academy to confer the 1983 prize on Golding aroused unusual ire; one academy member was angered enough to make an unprecedented public complaint. Critics quickly chimed in, charging that Golding's work was not up to Nobel standards and that a number of worthier candidates had been overlooked. Defenders countered with accusations of literary elitism and sour gripes...
Covello theorized that the suspect had been rifling drawers in the suite when one of her roommates returned home, forcing the intruder into the closet. She came home, her roommate left, and the suspect was trying to slip out when she discovered him, Covello speculated...