Word: slipping
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...early months, he rammed his head against the plaster cell wall. He raved again and again that Jews were being tortured and killed because Gentiles wanted revenge for his crime. He shouted that he could hear screams from the jail cellar, machine guns in the street. Often he would slip his visitors bits of paper with phone numbers scribbled on them in an oddly womanish hand, whispering desperately: "These people have been murdered. They're all out to get the Jews, and these people won't answer the phone because they're dead." Usually, the numbers were...
...they got but don't want for what they do. They will accept practically anything, including Indian brassware and whirlpool baths (but not adults' clothing or initialed gifts). They check prices against a list of 150,000 items carried by local stores, give the customer a credit slip (subtracting a 20% service charge), then let him make his own selection from other returns...
...team straight again but pinning Dennis Wright at 4:58. Franquemont had outclassed Wright, and a win by points was assured, but the captain was out for a pin. Franquemont picked up point after point as he continually tied-up the shorter, rounder Wright but he couldn't slip in a pinning hold...
...from the raucous early days of the organization, the only reminder of which is the club's emblem: a naked girl slapping a tambourine. Back in 1893, the Vaudeville Club, as it was then known, leased a room in the old Met. It was common for members to slip out of a performance of Faust, dash across the corridor to the clubroom and watch acts like "Papinta and Her Novel Chromatic and Serpentine Dances." The nightly vaudeville show became increasingly risque until a police raid obliged the members reluctantly to forgo Papinta for Pagliacci...
...passage describing how Jackie used petroleum jelly in order to slip her wedding ring on Jack's finger after he had been pronounced dead at Dallas' Parkland Hospital...