Word: slipping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gaulle's domestic opponents, left and right, exploded into protest. The French Communist Party, now playing the rebels' game, ordered its supporters to vote no in the referendum. In Spain General Raoul Salan and red-bearded Pierre Lagaillarde fumed in frustration; they had planned to slip into Algeria and rouse the ultras against De Gaulle. But French diplomatic pressure on Spain frustrated them instead. Admitted Lagaillarde last week, "Yes, I tried to board ship to get back to Algeria. So did Salan. We were stopped by the Spanish police...
When Alexander Woollcott asked to see the collection, Barnes sent him a nasty note signed with the name of his dog (which was, impressively enough, Fidèle de Port-Manech). Walter P. Chrysler Jr. got a "rejection slip" signed by a fictitious secretary named Kelly. Though the young James Johnson Sweeney managed to make the grade, the Modern Museum's Alfred Barr Jr. was rudely rebuffed by Barnes, and Lloyd Goodrich of the Whitney Museum never got in at all. Members of the faculty of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts were banned as being "habitually...
...Toast, No Butter. Now and then, of course. Dr. Lenard suffers a slip of the stylus. Forgivably enough, he fumbles a number of Milne's choicer puns ("ambush" as a bush, "issue" as a sneeze), and the great gag about Piglet's grandfather. Trespassers W. somehow just lies there in Latin. Furthermore, panistostatus cum butyro, though verbally correct, makes no sense at all in the Roman context as a translation of "buttered toast." According to Dr. Frederick L. Santee, a leading U.S. Latinist, the Romans had no toast and no word for it, and though they...
...Commerce Department's forecast was also good news for the U.S. Government, which had expected exports to slip next year, thus worsen the U.S. balance-of-payments problem. Big exports of aircraft and raw cotton in 1960 were considered to be one-shot performances that would not be repeated in 1961. Last week the Department of Agriculture estimated that agriculture exports will not drop by more than 10%, which could easily be made up by increases in industrial materials. Sales of jets abroad will continue high, partly because of an order backlog of twelve to 18 months...
Every House except for Eliot and Winthrop posted substantial gains over last year's figures. Quincy had the greatest improvement, raising their total from just over $1,200 in 1959 to $2,144 this year. The increase in House contributions was partially offset, however, by a slip from $6,175 to $5,550 in the Yard...