Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first nine minutes, the Crimson looked like a fine college hockey team. The lines passed well, skated well, and took advantage of the numerous slip-tips by the Tech defense to rack up four goals, and almost hit for half a dozen more...
...another: "When [the A.P.'s] Jack Bell reported, "That's the first time I ever had a lunatic engineer," Mr. Dewey said sharply,' the A.P. desk in New York shouldn't have changed 'sharply' to 'facetiously'. . . At what point do you slip over from explanatory reporting and get into opinion, so that you should be run on the editorial page?" Wilbur Cogshall of the Louisville Courier-Journal said that individual papers must decide. When Cogshall's paper finds Scotty Reston too interpretive, it runs Reston on the editorial page...
...good record continues: about 50% of A.A. members never drink again; about half of those who "slip" return to A.A. within a period of one to five years...
...morning. Then, with time out for a sponsor's message about mayonnaise, he drawls glibly without script for 15 minutes. Sometimes he announces that there is no news worth mentioning, advises people not to buy a paper that day. From politics, war, or a headlined disaster he may slip into a spiel on Southern cooking: "Where you go'n' to find better cookin' than in your own Virginia? Provided, of course, you use enough corn bread, and enough bacon in cookin' your vegetables." Even some Richmonders who profess to be fed up with his sagelike...
Harvard football teams always manage to look pretty good in the record books by virtue of a fantastic number of wins they managed to slip over in the 1880's and 1890's, before anyone else caught on to the science of the game...