Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Danger is an integral part of vaulting and the possibility of injury is always in the back of a vaulter's mind. There are over 100 different steps involved in a single vault, and a slip up in any one of these motions could spell disaster. The greatest threat to the vaulter is that be won't quite make it over the bar and will return from whence he came, as they say. The floor on which he makes his approach is hard and there are no pads to cushion his fall...
Flashes of outright seriousness do surface from time to time, but they slip away too quickly to allow a firm grip--which is very likely all for the best. Dan Rice, from all accounts, was a sunbeam; by the play's end he is already half sunk in twilight, dimmed by the onslaught of "modern contrivances" and the newborn industrial mentality. Try to portray a sunbeam a hundred and twenty years later and you may get a gleam of warmth: some charming laughs, perhaps; and, in the end, a confused sense of pleasure and a done of genuine perplexity...
However, the coach's minor slip of the tongue was more than appropriate, for the tie game--normally an indicator of nothing lost and nothing gained--sets back Harvard only slightly less than a loss in the icemen's quest for an ever-slipping-away playoff spot...
...inquiries to World were rebuffed, took their concern about the missing relatives to state police. The airline, which has been ordered by the Civil Aeronautics Board to produce all passenger documentation, claims that a no-show in Newark and an unpulled ticket stub in Oakland allowed the Metcalfs to slip through uncounted...
...corgi (her mother-in-law's favorite breed of dog), a 12-lb. loaf of West Indian bread baked in the shape of a duck, and a lapel button that said CHARLIE IS MY DARLING. The royal couple never carry money, so an aide had to slip Di and Charles a few pence when they decided to play bingo. Di proved lucky, walking off with a set of plastic spoons and forks, just the thing for the next royal picnic. Charles won nothing. During the 90-minute visit, Diana demonstrated her concern for the family budget. Told that tickets...