Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Agriculture Department had price news that tickled every American right in the breadbasket, just when a rise in the cost of living (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was hitting him in the pocket. Prices of beef will slip 5% to 10% in the next few months, and prices of fruits and vegetables will also drop, perhaps enough to pace a dip in the consumer price index...
...were bent by this temperature gradient, hiding a sub as effectively as if it were behind a hill. Equipped with a gadget of Woods Hole's devising, a bathythermograph, many a U.S. sub saved itself during World War II by finding a temperature "hill" in the ocean and slip ping behind...
...effective after six months (May 27). U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter, in his outrage, made a solitary trip to Gromyko's villa to warn the Russian Foreign Minister that "the early days of next week will determine the outcome of the conference." Deliberately, Herter let slip the fact that his plane was on stand-by notice, and when Gromyko protested that he was willing to go on negotiating indefinitely, Herter snapped back: "Well...
...Silvio Milazzo, 56, as the voice of his island's traditional separatism had typically Sicilian origins. A Christian Democrat since early youth, Landowner Milazzo was a reliable party wheel horse up to the time ambitious former Italian Premier Amintore Fanfani (TIME, May 26, 1958 et seq.) began to slip his bright young men from Rome into Sicily's Christian Democratic organization. Last October, outraged by this infringement on Sicilian autonomy (and threat to Sicilian patronage), Milazzo bolted the party. He managed to get control of the regional assembly by putting together a crazy-quilt coalition of Monarchists, Fascists...
Slicks & Gusts. But the 500 is no joy ride. One slip, one tiny miscalculation, a sudden gust of wind, an oil slick on the track-any of these, at high speed, can bring death; the track's pavement and rails are covered with skid marks and paint scratches left by skidding, hurtling cars. In 50 years of racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 50 people have died...