Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your recent article on the British schoolgirl's uniform annoyed me intensely. There is nothing smarter than a box-pleated gym slip, fresh white blouse and colored tie. True, the stockings are not glamorous, but think of the English climate. Give me the English schoolgirl type to the overpainted sweater girl and sloppy bobby-soxer of the States...
Never too busy to slip a verbal dirk into some offending slab of Americana, TV Playwright Paddy Chayefsky bared his latest bodkin in London: "I don't know what Hollywood stands for, but if it stands for current values I am dead against it. American values are all wrong -the pursuit of security and comfort, with everyone plugging away to be as ordinary as possible. It's like Rome. I can hear the clanking of the barbarians at the gates...
...fast-running newcomer. They had reason enough: Incumbent Herschel C. (for Cel-lel) Loveless, 47, rough-cut sample of the conservatism that marks today's Democratic Governors. By vetoing the legislature's extension of the sales tax at the 2½% level, thus letting it slip to 2%, Loveless last year won the retailers around the border counties, then placated other groups by looking sad when he had to veto the school program that the sales tax would have supported. In outspoken contrast, Professor (of Agricultural Economics) Murray lectures that the sales tax is the only...
RECREATION F. & J. at Play Come crisis, Congress, conference or Communism, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles tries to slip away from his job every couple of months to rest and think. And when he gets away, in thorough Thoreau-going fashion he goes very nearly to population's brink. He and his wife Janet pack a single bag, fly to Watertown, N.Y., board a twin-engined amphibious plane near Lake Ontario, and fly out to their own private Duck Island (3 sq. mi.) and their primitive three-room log cabin-bare of telephone, electricity, running water and plumbing...
Even Joseph Sewall, model student that he was, managed to slip home for a few days each month, giving the universal excuse of a wedding or funeral in the family, or having a "Tooth pull...