Word: slips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really played hard, and our intensity was there all game," Brill said. "We can't let our confidence slip just because of the way the game ended--we have the talent to play with anyone in the country...
...Mercker's fastball to Berry is fouled off, and you have but a second to react, calculate and react again...you lunge, desperately, with both hands, and when you catch it you're quickly grateful not to have been cascaded with a chorus of boos for letting the prize slip to the blue seats below...
...leadership: "Your time is up. Leave now or we will force you from power." Haiti's ruling triumvirate sent mixed signals: Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, the capo, told CBS News he was prepared to leave "under certain conditions" but that he had flatly rejected a reported U.S. offer to slip away into cushy exile. He also warned that a "long, extended civil war and a bloodbath" would follow his departure...
...would have been a lot better if they had done [registration] in alphabetical order so you could slip into your established place when the turn came," said David S. Grewal...
...dashing toward the beaches in the first place. At the same time, Castro's castaways must now swallow a humiliating demotion in status. The waning of superpower rivalry has weakened Cubans' claims to being fugitives from political oppression; instead they are now viewed simply as poor people trying to slip through the door to American prosperity -- even as the U.S. anachronistically continues to treat Havana as it has since the late '50s and '60s: as a dangerous purveyor of subversion and Soviet expansionism...