Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Late last summer, mobsters from Cleveland and Los Angeles set in motion an ingenious scheme to slip the hand of organized crime back into the casino tills. The plan was simple: organize the city's 7,000 plus gambling dealers into a mob-run union. Using the threat of a strike that could cripple the gambling hotels, the gangsters could persuade the owners to sign lucrative contracts for food, liquor and vending machines from firms owned by Cosa Nostra An equally distasteful prospect for casino owners would be that the dealers could become free agents, responsible only...
...Closed since the outbreak of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, Suez today is a useless relic of what was once one of the world's busiest waterways that handled an average of 57 ships a day in 1966. Dug in on opposite banks, the Arabs and Israelis sometimes slip across the canal to launch raids. The canal thus even fails to fulfill its sole remaining function of a moat between enemies...
...grabbed the opportunity to speak about taxation, and its relation to Vietnam, and also managed to slip in a few statistics about the success of New York's new auxiliary police force, the Fourth Platoon...
...pile. "VUH-LEW-CHI," the cry comes. The pencils of a dozen candidates and watchers crowded around make another mark next to Al's name on the sheets where they're tallying the redistribution. "We're getting plenty but maybe you could use some more votes. We'd slip a few extra ones in for you-but there's witnesses," A Vellucci backer jokes with another candidate...
...incumbent Daniel J. Hayes Jr. (eleventh with 1155 votes) pick up new votes in the redistribution faster than newcomer Leonard J. Russell (tenth with 1159)? If Hayes begins to slip, even a little, his chances of re-election will approach zero...