Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present chance for peace slip away would be criminal," he insisted. "At last, De Gaulle and Ferhat Abbas agree to a free choice by the Algerian people . . . If I had been in the Algerians' shoes, I would already have wired De Gaulle, 'Arriving Orly Airport at such and such a time. Please send someone to meet me.' " Hopefully, Bourguiba offered his services as referee: "I am ready to do anything for peace . . . act as a postman, anything. If it would help matters, I am ready to meet De Gaulle...
...into a warm and moving play. A tour through The Bronx's St. Joseph's School for the Deaf turned into a tense, hour-long exploration of all the dimensions of a handicapped child's difficulties. With consistent skill, none of the youngsters ever seemed to slip out of the isolating "zone of silence," but none of them fitted the difficult script with more professional precision than a blue-eyed, bang-trimmed ten-year-old named Patty Duke...
...When her slip finally comes in, there's no telling what Red Knees Baker is up to, for Dobie has long since gone off to a state university, where a coed named Chloe ("what a great heart beat beneath that flat chest") mercifully ends the story by marrying him. All of which is one more example of what readers have known since Barefoot Boy with Cheek: Humorist Max Shulman is a sort of Seventh Avenue A. A. Milne. He has a corner on pooh...
...Francisco Chronicle columnist who calls himself Count Marco, "do you let out a loud 'whoosh' of relief and stand there grunting and scratching like some happy sow, or do you have your [husband] help with the snaps, then gracefully cross your arms as you let it slip down...
...outward appearances, Police Reporter Gene Grove, 34, and Aviation Editor Harry Franken, 35, are smart, hardworking newsmen on the daily Columbus (Ohio) Citizen (circ. 85,942). But once each week the two slip off duty and into the harness of the Columbus C.I.O. News, a weekly organ for organized labor. There Reporters Franken and Grove conduct a column called "Checking the Press." Its purpose: to appraise the performance of the Columbus daily press, including their own Citizen, A recent example of their work in the C.I.O. News: "The Citizen has more and more sugar-coated its stories, has spent more...