Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doctors that he was not infected and that it is virtually impossible to pass the disease to another person. But Bodeck, described by relatives as a hypochondriac, did not believe them. When police found him, his mailbox was jammed with material describing the disease. Police also found a slip confirming that Bodeck had an appointment next week for yet another Lyme-disease test...
With George Bush comfortably settled into his administration, it's time to compare and contrast. Will Bush, now perceived as Mr. Nice Guy, ever completely slip the wimp image? Will his administration ever produce a scandal big enough to make him a real Republican...
Unfortunately, although Harvard's Core doesn't announce that it is a tribute to Western civilization, you can slip through learning little else...
When I returned to good old suburban high school U.S.A. that fall, I was restless. After a taste of college life I found it impossible to slip back into the old high school grind...
Doug Moe, the flamboyant coach of the Denver Nuggets, got to thinking a few weeks ago that pro basketball shouldn't let Kareem Abdul-Jabbar slip into retirement without somebody standing up and saying what a "jerk" the Laker center had been "his whole life." Abdul-Jabbar let it go, but the obvious rejoinder, if he remembered the headlines of 1961, was to say at least he never accepted carfare from a fixer for listening to the pitch. That was Moe's only confessed involvement in a point-shaving mess at the University of North Carolina, but it was enough...