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...warship docked at the base thus becomes a kind of factory where a sailor puts in a day's work and then leaves, just like any civilian worker. Single enlisted men often head for the Scuttle Butt, a lively disco bearing no resemblance to the "slop chute" E.M. clubs that former Navy men knew. The new informality is striking. According to some officers, today's sailor does not always say "Yes, sir," but may just as frequently say "Yeah," and then add, "Have a nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: For Sailors, a Better Life | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...whether or not the other side was bugging us." And his motive for keeping the thing secret? No cover-up, just that "in everything I was saying, or certainly thinking at the time, was but...to sure that as far as any slip-over, or should I say "slop-over" I think would be a better word. Any slop-over in a way that would damage innocent people, or blow it into political proportions...it was that that I certainly wanted to avoid...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Three More Weeks | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...motive in everything I was saying or certainly thinking at the time was not to try to cover up a criminal action but ... to be sure that as far as any slip-over?or should I say slop-over, I think, would be a better word?any slop-over in a way that would damage innocent people." He begins to ramble. "We weren't going to allow people in the White House, people in the committee [his re-election committee] at the highest levels who were not involved to be smeared by the whole thing. In other words, we were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: NIXON TALKS | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

Soft-Core Reality. A series of shorts on wacky subjects: a rampaging native plant of Georgia called Kudzu, the miniature circus Alexander Calder made out of odds and ends and could bring to life for his friends, and a celebration of pigs splashing around in their slop. Six shorts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM | 3/17/1977 | See Source »

...that Dawkins actually said, "I need my shot like a hog needs slop...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: The Best and Worst of '77: Should Old Acquaintance Etc. | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

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