Word: slipping
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...Yankers have just dropped three straight to the Red Son and with a boss like George Steinbrenner, the pink slip is probably in the mail...
Ralph: I'm glad you brought that up, dearest. Senator Alfonse D'Amato, the fellow Gerry might run against, says he prefers Coke now, because of the Ferraro ad. This means D'Amato and Ferraro could split the cola vote, and a third-party, 7-Up candidate might slip into the Senate. I needn't tell you what an uncola Senator may do to the two-cola political system as we know it. Before you know it, Orange Crush and Yoo-Hoo will have their own Senators...
...Chinese Foreign Ministry acknowledged the mistake. South Korean Minister of Culture Lee Won Hong also publicly stressed that there had been "no political motives" involved in the incident and referred vaguely to a "simple scuffle" on board. By tiptoeing around the word mutiny, he helped his government slip out of the potentially embarrassing situation of having to put the mutinous crewmen on trial...
...moment he was appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party in February 1984. He delivered a wheezing, gasping eulogy at the Red Square funeral of Yuri Andropov and could not hold his hand up in a salute. During the months that followed, bouts of poor health forced him to slip out of public view for weeks at a time, but he always reappeared at Kremlin ceremonies that were carefully contrived to hide his trembling hand and stumbling step. Chernenko made his last public appearance on Feb. 28 to receive his credentials as a parliamentary deputy for the seat...
...pass the three-goal hat-trick record to and fro. But Gretzky is most conscious of the defenseman Potvin, and not only because Potvin is one of those formidable superstructures whose presence on any side of the ice sends the pacifists to the other. Two years ago, in a slip that irritated New York fans, Gretzky referred to the Montreal Canadiens as hockey's greatest team when he meant its most storied organization. No Canadian misunderstood, as Potvin was gracious enough to explain on television, winning Gretzky's gratitude...