Word: slips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contest's winning goal came just 49 seconds after the opening faceoff. B.U. goaltender Michelle Mesnick, in trouble on the opening shift, let a shot from Crimson third-stringer Emily Diehl slip...
...difficulty of zeroing in on Saddam is one reason the Bush Administration has so assiduously denied that it is gunning for him. Washington does not want to declare killing Saddam as a goal and risk failing to achieve it, repeating last year's humiliation of having Manuel Noriega slip through U.S. hands during the invasion of Panama. "Every day that Saddam survived," says a White House official, "would be seen as a victory for him and a loss...
...rest of us will have no such consolation. We may have had the opportunity to object, but we chose to let it slip away. We remained silent. Now we must face the consequences of our indifference...
...Ethnic separatism has always been Gorbachev's blind spot, a yearning for which the Soviet President has neither sympathy nor patience. Though he likes to claim he is simply "enforcing the constitution," he has been consistent in his efforts to neutralize democratically elected governments in republics that threaten to slip away from the Kremlin's control. While he has put up with considerable disorder, which dismays his generals, he has demonstrated before that he is ready to use armed force to hold the union together. Now Gorbachev has adopted stale Stalinist lies by claiming he is responding to pleas from...
...from readers. Quiggle and Strianse have become expert at avoiding the juxtaposition of, say, an air-disaster story and an airline ad. They know that liquor ads do not keep easy company with stories on religious fundamentalists. When a conflict arises, the ad is usually moved. But sometimes things slip through. Both Quiggle and Strianse are still talking about the week they allowed an advertisement for pen-and-pencil sets to appear on the same page as an interview with Mother Teresa under the headline "A Pencil in the Hand...