Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once a dashiki-clad radical, King, 55, recently adopted a sober tone and somber attire. Nevertheless, he let slip a few atavistic faux pas, such as saying that he preferred Fidel Castro to Ronald Reagan. More damaging in this heavily Catholic city, he implied, without offering evidence, that the late Humberto Cardinal Medeiros was antiSemitic...
...right, I saw a Yale undergrad slip, laughing, from the top of the Yale Bowl. He tumbled, head-over-heels, down the step grass incline, plummeting ever closer to the brick barrier that was the mantle of one portal...
...fear the political effects even more. All Grenadians recognize that our island needs economic help. No one wishes to reject U.S. aid. But because of our circumstances, Grenada could easily, almost unconsciously, slip into the role of a U.S. satellite. We are concerned that our rescue from the terror of the "revolutionary armed forces" may have left us with an American godfather willing to foot the bills, while obliging us to play the role of Washington's little...
...Irish pol. Flynn, the liberal "goo-goo". King, the leftist. Incidents become symbolic stories that don't connect," not proven patterns but isolated signals between the lines. Thus Finnegan took his desk home from his School Board office: read. he's a plunderer. Larry DiCara let an illegal loan slip in from an aide: He's no manager. Flynn gave out different brochures to Blacks and whites: He's a panderer. Most reporters agree these are petty incidents, but they provide drama and focus to the coverage...
...waltzing Matilda and waving Aussie flags passed legions of local patriots God-blessing America and brandishing the Stars and Stripes. Despite a few ugly incidents, there was remarkably little ill will among the crowd of 10,000 on the Newport waterfront. As Australia II was guided back into her slip, Skipper Bertrand, Backer Bond and Designer Ben Lexcen led a round of hip-hip-hoorays for Conner and his men. "There will never be another like it," mused Halsey Herreshoff, Liberty's navigator. "It was the essence of sport in that one race...