Word: slipping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...departing refugees were able to slip some money out of Burma before Ne Win plugged all the loopholes...
...clubhouse for the popping of the corks. There stood "Champagne Tony" Lema at last week's Cleveland Open, 15 under par, with just a one-foot putt between him and $20,000-and everybody knows that golf pros do not miss one-foot putts. But there was a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. Ever so casually, Tony stepped up to the ball. Ever so casually, he pushed it right around the hole...
...company, an airline and even a chain of hotels to serve them. But until recently, it got a very small profit return on these vast assets; it allowed its operations to become antiquated, competing air and highway traffic to steal away earnings and its ships, hotels and airline to slip into the red. Even worse, it sold off or leased much of its 25 million acres of valuable oil, gas and mineral and timber land, largely because it was reluctant to compete directly with some of its own freight customers...
Busy with outbreaks of banditry elsewhere, the federal government let the remote coffee-growing land slip away by default. Marquetalia paid no taxes, and death awaited any police or military force rash enough to cross its borders. Last December Tiro Fijo and his men ambushed an army patrol, killing six soldiers. All told, the army credits him with 200 murders...
...Brazil, where smugglers bring in an estimated 250,000 transistor radios each year, one Japanese model that retails legally for $46 costs $7.50 at your friendly smuggler's outlet. Guatemalans smuggle almost anything made in Mexico; Costa Rica's national lottery is pretty unexciting, so Costa Ricans slip in big wads of tickets from Panama, where the payoff is bigger. In Chile Camay soap rates high, since local brands are sudsless-and expensive. Scotch whisky is a durable favorite everywhere. (Enterprising Argentine distillers now produce under license a domestic brand labeled "Old Smuggler," but it cannot quite pass...