Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stern said the group would also have people in the dining halls asking students to sign post cards to Andropov and Secretary of State George Schultz. "We're trying to raise people's consciousness, so they don't let this day slip by them," Stern said...
...Diethrich: "There is nothing more beautiful than the human heart. It's alive, and I think it's important to see it live." Worried in part that viewers might see it die, two-thirds of the stations carrying the program delayed the broadcast; most were prepared to slip in another show if the operation failed. Diethrich dismissed these fears as merely "hypothetical." The death rate during bypass surgery...
...slip-ups at the next stop, the Cayman Islands, the self-styled "world's No. 1 tax haven," with some 420 banks. Nearly a third of the island's 17,000 inhabitants, who pride themselves on their links to Mother England, came out to wave Union Jacks at the royal couple. But the Duke of Edinburgh, whose pet cause is the World Wild Life Fund, stole the show. On the windswept coast, he looked in on the world's first farm to breed the rare green turtle. Sporting a black tie festooned with tiny pandas, he left...
This personal world of housecalls and stethoscopes in black bags is gone. "Instead of spending forty-five minutes listening to the chest and palpating the abdomen, the doctor can sign a slip which sends the patient off to the X-ray department for a CT scan," Thomas observes, continuing later that "the doctor can set himself, if he likes, at a distance, remote from the patient and the family, never touching anyone beyond a perfunctory handshake as the first and only contact...
Northeastern followed its early hitting with the game's first goal, a power-play blast off Captain Glen Giovanucci's stick which Blair bobbled three times before letting it slip into...