Word: slipping
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...through? At fifty-five hundred and . . . six, you want him? Fifty-five hundred and . . ." BAM, the gavel would come down, and the gentleman in the fifth row who had firmly decided he could spend no more than $3,500 for the filly would suddenly find himself signing a slip...
...strapped for cash, probably could not have mustered more than 20% of the vote in the election. But that 20% might have been enough to let Minh slip into power, since most of it probably would have been siphoned from Thieu's reservoir of votes-the military and the hardliners...
...live up to the sobriquet. She turned away as many as 35 women a minute during peak periods (up to 2,000 a day), usually with a wave of the finger but sometimes by sprinting into the church to nab offenders who were brazen enough to try to slip past...
...Today show began innocently enough, with Edwin Newman introduc-ing Guest George Jessel and settling down for another innocuous celebrity interview. Jessel, dressed in an Army uniform he had bought himself and had decorated with stars, bars and ribbons, began talking about American troops in Europe. In a calculated slip of the tongue, he pretended to confuse the New York Times with Pravda. A bit later, Jessel took the same crack at the Washington Post. Unamused, Newman rose to the defense of the press. Huffily he reminded Jessel of his guest status, then said by way of dismissal: "Thank...
...what has become one of the decade's most popular questions, Freud admitted having no answer: What does a woman want? One would like to have been able to slip him a copy of this first novel-a long, first-person, Portnoyesque rant that seems to wedge at least 30 years of neurotic female yearning into its emancipated pages...