Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finest scheme, I outlined three plans of action in case Kinko's was unable to xerox my thesis in time to meet the 5 p.m. deadline. First, I would cry. Second, I would slip the clerk $10. Third, I would call my friend Joe, cry and ask him to drive me to a Kinko's out in the suburbs...
...goaltender came up big on a round-the-back-of-the-net attempt by Murray and stuffed three consecutive Dave Witherell shots on the power play, but the Saints still managed to slip two goals past...
...streaks of ineffective play caused last night's game to slip away and caused the season to collapse as well...
...citizens and party officials to make better use of their democratic rights. Speaking to a group of coal miners in Donetsk, the Soviet leader warned that his reform program needed the Ukraine's support. Said he: "If every republic doesn't make its contribution, then of course perestroika will slip into neutral...
Baker's most surprising slip last week was not realizing that Reagan-era ethical laxity is Out and more rigid Bush-era ethics are In. Four days after a story broke that he owned shares (worth $7 million in 1981 and an undisclosed amount today) in Chemical Bank New York Corp., which has huge loans to Third World nations, he announced that he would sell them. As Reagan's Secretary of Treasury, a qualified blind trust (whose owner knows what assets it contains, though he has no say in when they are bought and sold) was deemed sufficient. But after...