Word: slipping
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...first newsmen to slip through the lines last week and reach the Cuban mountains where 42 U.S. and Canadian citizens are held captive by Fidel Castro's rebels were a party from TIME and LIFE. At first the rebels met the newsmen with leveled guns, but later they led TIME Correspondent Jay Mallin to the hostages and even gave him peg-cuffed zoot trousers to replace his mud-caked pants. Back in the city of Guantanamo, he stared into gun barrels again-this time with suspicious government soldiers behind them. Before he talked his way past the soldiers...
...villagers tumbled out of bed and, dressing as they ran, swarmed to the church, shouting threats. The alarm had been sounded by two early risers who had spotted the enemy on their way to work. The enemy: Parish Priest Andrea Tarquini, who, flanked by three carabinieri, had tried to slip secretly into the church to sign a document that the whole village considered an outrage...
Ironically, Littlefield had just decided that he really wanted to run his honest-to-goodness railroad when all his loans began to slip their bonds. In the panic of '73, his empire fell. But before that his pal Swepson had disowned him and declared himself insolvent, although he subsequently died a millionaire, to be buried under the epitaph "Trusting in Jesus for Salvation." Little eld's great and good friend Mrs. Ann Cavarly, the wife of an associate, played the self-appointed blabbermouth before investigating committees, while Democratic journalists howled for the staunchly Republican general's head...
...Slip me a spare match, sister?" inquired one tweed-beaten young man at the corner. Portia didn't smoke; and moved on in injured innocence...
...cluster of crew-cuts congealed at a brick wall and pitched pennies and told jokes and joined in spasmodic bursts of coarse laughter. A gaunt, triangular face asserted by a brown goatee told Portia her slip was showing. "It's snowing down south," he said wryly...