Word: slipping
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...with hurrying heels. In the cacophony that makes a great city, no one-would hear a cry for help coming from behind the clock face in the tower 100 ft. above their heads. On and around the clock's great hands moved, slow and inexorable, with never a slip...
...quickly got rooms. But when the fourth man, a Negro, stepped forward, the room clerk began to fumble with the registry cards and to complain that the airline had mixed up the reservations. He did not say that he had no rooms, but he finally handed the Negro a slip of paper with the address of a cheaper hotel and told him to go there...
...added, however, that the Committee did not "want to make a game" out of trying to catch every violator. The decree is so worded that it virtually permits all spectators with small bottles or pocket flasks to slip by unchallenged or unnoticed...
...seeking of knowledge and wisdom, some of the undersigned have had to leave behind their beloved wives and children. In most of the cases the painful separation has already lasted several years, and their return is still being denied . . . Distressed and unsettled, we are forced to let slip through our fingers the best years of our lives . . . We sincerely appeal to you, Mr. President, to make it possible for any Chinese student to be allowed to leave the United States whenever he so chooses, and we petition you to revoke this restraining order." So far, they have received no answer...
When interruptions cease, some of the victims try desperately to think about their studies, or to occupy themselves with intellectual problems. For the most part, they fail. Little by little their brains go dead or slip out of control. They cannot concentrate; their thoughts wander aimlessly. Their arithmetic drops to primary-school level...