Word: slope
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notorious "General" Baimungi, the meanest Mau Mau of them all, had no intention of joining the ranks of the technologically unemployed. Once last month's independence celebrations were over, he and his band of 200 green-uniformed thugs slipped quietly back into the forests on the north slope of Mount Kenya, broke out hidden rifles, and resumed their careers...
...good family, a smattering of languages, and big, clear handwriting. During Lord Palmerston's 16 years as Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister, state papers were constantly returned from 10 Downing Street with testy quibbles on the writer's grammar or his handwriting, which, Palmerston insisted, should slope forward, not backward "like the raking masts of an American schooner...
...international crime syndicate called SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Revenge and Extortion), Bond at first displays his customary stocks in trade. He uses his own urine as invisible ink, and successfully escapes from Blofeld's Alpine retreat by a daredevil schuss down the snow-covered, moonlit slope-as patrols of goons with guns set an avalanche tumbling down after him. Then, suddenly, Bond is threatened with what, for an international cad, would clearly be a fate worse than death: matrimony...
Lewis' troubles began last December, after the Walnut town fathers refused his demand that they build a road to his one-acre lot on a bungalow-filled slope grandly misnamed Castle Hill. His wife Eva threatened to retaliate by selling the property to Negroes...
...have reason to be more optimistic. Consumer spending has been holding at a high $20 billion monthly, auto sales are still setting records, and the annual rates of Government and business capital spending are each expected to jump $3 billion in the second half. And though business profits usually slope off as a recovery ages, reports of second-quarter earnings so far are unusually good. Average gains by industries...