Word: slipping
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...Then he jumped and kicked and walked on his front feet. Most times, you have time to slip him some rein, but Kenny was on the ground in five seconds...
...wave of constant attack by his team, Gerry Jorgenson back handed in the first Crimson goal at 15:12 on a rebound of a hard drill of linemate Tim Taylor. After that the Crimson fans knew their team was not going to let the game just slip away...
...very easy to let social pathos of this kind slip into the maudlin, nor is it difficult to err the other way and harden a story to the point where it no longer engages sympathy at all (for example, The Four Hundred Blows. De Sica chooses the middle way, recording scenes that smack so authentically of life that the viewer often feels as though he were intruding. The actors, who are really non-actors chosen because they had no previous experience, respond to each crisis with simplicity, and without stagy affection. They are what they are: normal, undevious people...
...became a cause of controversy at the parley. Yelled Patrice Lumumba, a skinny,young firebrand from Stanleyville whose histrionics were already grabbing headlines: "I demand the immediate withdrawal from this conference room of all white advisers! Tshombe doesn't dare open his mouth until he has received a slip of paper from the European behind...
Scars & Scrapes. Physically, Sarah is a boyish slip of a girl-5 ft. 6 in., 96 Ibs. But the flappy ears are no longer a problem, since she had them bobbed at 14, and her dark brown hair tumbles over the left of her big blue-green eyes in a fetching...