Word: slips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Sapir went to the Credit Suisse bank in Geneva in 1947, she showed officials a deposit slip dated August 1938. The bankers were unmoved. One of them, with what she remembers as a starchy military bearing, told her that in order to claim the account she would have to produce a death certificate for her father. "I broke into tears," she says, "and I cried to him, 'You want me to get it from Hitler, from Himmler?' But it was no use." That was the experience of thousands of Jews...
...Last month the British Foreign Office released a 23-page report titled Nazi Gold: Information from the British Archives, which reveals that an immense amount of gold the Nazis looted from banks and private holdings in occupied countries ended up in Switzerland. Citing a Swiss banker who "let it slip," the report says some $500 million in Nazi gold was on deposit in Switzerland, a charge Bern vigorously denies. Not all of it was taken from captured central banks. Some was gold from the jewelry and teeth of Jewish victims of death camps. The Germans then remelted it into ingots...
...could I avoid making you a part of my life," the message read. "And now you want out, to be done with me forever. Well, I have to tell you Gupton, IT'S JUST NOT THAT EASY. I will fight for you Gupton, I will not let you slip away. I know where you live." There was an unmistakable jocularity in Adam's tone, but nonetheless, I was concerned. After all, I really didn't know this person at all. And after all, he really did know where I lived, since I had listed my addresses, both at home...
...staff and Faculty can get SLIP connections to Harvard from home. Harvard undergrads living on campus cannot sign up for SLIP connections, which allow students to browse the Web using a modem, from their dorm or their summer residence...
...weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth heard all across the campus recently, you'd think that Harvard students heard stallions braying and trampling hooves pounding on asphalt as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse gallopped up J.F.K. Street. But their cause for alarm was actually Harvard's slip from first to third place in the annual U.S. News and World Report college rankings. Apparently, students at Stanford are also reacting hysterically to their tumble from fourth to sixth place...