Word: slipping
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...find that hard to believe," said Deputy Fire Chief William Cantwell, when asked about the suspected slip in immediate response. "That's a luxury they can't allow themselves to have...
Wall Street analysts were divided, as usual, over whether the market was starting a new push upward or would slip back. Monte Gordon, vice president and director of research for the Dreyfus financial group sees more records ahead. Said he: "I think you can expect to reach the 1275 level in the middle or the end of October." But some other seers were worried about large federal deficits and higher interest rates. Said David Jones, senior vice president of Aubrey G. Lanston & Co.: "I think the market has run out of steam and won't do much better than...
...Gemayel government insisted that the Druze forces were being heavily reinforced by troops from Syria and a rebel faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Many Lebanese, especially the Christians, have long been fearful that somehow the Palestinian guerrillas, in one guise or another, would find a way to slip back into West Beirut, and suddenly they appeared to be attempting to do exactly that...
...Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Cosell's offense: during ABC's Monday-night broadcast of a football game between the Washington Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys, he referred to Alvin Garrett, a black wide receiver for the Redskins, as "that little monkey." Cosell's remark "was a slip that reflected a thought," said an incensed Lowery. Cosell, who at first denied the comment, was less abject than adenoidal, even though his remark had lit up the network's switchboard with angry calls. On his daily ABC radio show, Supermouth expressed his admiration for Garrett and noted, accurately...
...never worn in a hotel, only at parties arranged in private houses or when royal ladies are present." They think longingly of the right public school, the right regiment, the right club (Whites, if possible, or Boodles, or Pratt's, if you must). They dread the fatal slip, the moment when they might, for example, eat asparagus with knife and fork: Use your fingers, idiot...