Word: slips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...amateur timing himself at home, the minute the second hand hits 00:00, and pay for missing shots with penitential 30-second loops; hockey players serve sentences for penalties that seem to last for years. Of course, this is true in every sport, or every life that knows a slip, a birth, a marriage, but in the Olympics an athlete comes into the spotlight for a second and then, in most cases, disappears into oblivion for four years. The first question asked of the first male gold medalist, Austrian downhiller Patrick Ortlieb, was whether he had thought, during...
February 12: A student reported a mail slip taken from his mail box sometime between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. at Lionel Hall...
...seducer, appropriately named Valentine, is played by James L. Walker. An ineffective "ivory-snatcher" (Phil Clandon's doubtful euphemism for a dentist) but a practiced man of the world, Walker radiates dashing vigor. It is a pity that he allows his cultivated accent to slip for a moment, in the third act, into an abominable twang...
When writing "Assignment" at the top of my fourth-grade papers, I'd be sure to write A-S-I then slip in another S so I wouldn't write...
Cleary, however, saved his weary team. With the Crimson a man down, Cleary went coast-to-coast to slip a shot by BC goalie Chick D'Entremont at 1:46 of the overtime session...