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Word: slipups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

That was cutting it pretty close. Anyhow, it didn't work; through some sort of slipup, the U.S. Navy jets arrived on the scene about an hour after the Cuban exiles' B-26s, which by then had mostly been shot down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: BAY OF PIGS REVISITED: Lessons from a Failure | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

...change of address. Herbie Chandler, the bell captain, can package and deliver a well-mounted orgy in three hours flat. Ogilvie, the house detective, will accept $25,000 to forget about a hit-and-run accident. There are shortcomings, of course, and once in a while even a mechanical slipup, like the business with the elevator. The assistant general manager "made a mental note" to find out what was wrong as early as page 40. But what with one thing and another (if he wasn't replacing all Gideon Bibles bearing call girls' phone numbers on the frontispiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Also Current: Mar. 26, 1965 | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

...letter concerning John Polacheck '64-4 which appeared in yesterday's CRIMSON was--by some unfortunate slipup--nearly two months out of date. Polacheck left Mississippi some time ago, and is now back in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polackeck Back in Cambridge | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

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