Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Haig-Gromyko conference took place in the office of the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Jeane Kirkpatrick, on the eleventh floor of the U.S. Mission in New York. Sitting on green sofas, the two men chatted while photographers clicked away. In a slip of the tongue, Haig noted that he had been reading the Soviet official's "bibliography" and learned that Gromyko had begun his diplomatic career in the U.S. in 1943 as Soviet Ambassador to Washington. Gromyko, 72, corrected the record by observing that he first came to the U.S. in 1939 as a counselor in Moscow...
...traditional "oyez, oyez," and the eight Justices stood silently behind the wooden bench. O'Connor then took a second oath ("I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States ..."), and a clerk of the court helped Justice O'Connor slip on a black robe over her lavender-colored dress. With a quick smile and a sure step, O'Connor took her place beside her colleagues. Like the opinions she has handed down in her two years on the Arizona State Court of Appeals, the ceremony was brief (six minutes...
...important. In relation, my stomach would attack us throughout the eleven o'clock lecture with sizzling pre-lunch hunger pains. Although I clearly remembered Procrastination's shortcomings, Organization was looking less attractive. She had me saving everything, even all those stupid Coop Charge receipts. "Why do we want a slip of paper with 'stationary' written on it twelve times?" She didn't answer until we started returning books. Procrastination and I had never saved anything but old newspapers and magazines, and somehow, they were always the only things we could find in the room when it came time to write...
...Apart from a few extremist groups such as the Afrikaner Weerstands Beweging, which bears more than a faint resemblance to the Nazis, ideological racism is rare. Whites do not openly make bigoted remarks. The literature of the ruling Nationalist Party contains no derogatory references to Blacks. But little things slip out. An English-speaking cab driver, who assured his passenger that he supported the reform-minded Progressive Federal Party, finished a lengthy discourse on poor Afrikaners (of predominantly Dutch stock, Afrikaners make up 65 per cent of the white population) by saying, "Why, some of these Afrikaners are barely...
McEnroe allowed several match points to slip away at 5-2 but took the championship with a typically forceful serve that Borg simply couldn't handle...