Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been more extensive than earlier accounts had indicated. Fagan got inside, Dellow said, by climbing a railing near the gates to the Ambassadors' entrance at 6:45 a.m. He was spotted by a policeman, but in the first breakdown of communications, the police control room let the warning slip...
...anticrime packet consists of an electronic detonator, a tear-gas canister and dye, all packed together so tightly that they fit inside the carved-out center of a stack of bills. Bank tellers keep the funny money in their cash drawers and slip it into a robber's bag along with the other loot. An electronic beam at the bank doors trips the detonator as the money is carried outside, and the hidden package explodes within...
...Miss America pageant. The parody climaxes with the funky "Black Boys/White Boys," which addresses the sublime pleasures of interracial intercourse. Unfortunately, most of the narrative bits do not mesh as well with the musical portion of the show. Yazbeck and Clarks have let one aspect of the original production slip through their fingers, and that's the scanty story line designed to give the whole business some semblance of order...
...been born under similar circumstances. The mother, shot in the abdomen, died as the child was delivered. The father is unknown. The boy, called Samer by the nurses, is olive skinned and weighs barely 4 Ibs. One has to hold it close to the chest to prevent it from slip ping through...
...triumph marked Connors' first Wimbledon championship since 1974, an eight-year span between victories topped only by Bill Tilden's nine-year hiatus (1921 to 1930). "I was going to do anything not to let this chance slip by," said Connors afterward. "I was going to fight to the death." Another veteran, two-time Wimbledon Winner Martina Navratilova, 25, slammed to a 6-1, 3-6, 6-2 victory over Chris Evert Lloyd, 27, in the women's final. The victory offered a bonus: $500,000 for winning the first three tournaments in the Playtex Challenge...