Word: glide
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...regularly and secretly with top executives at each of the three commercial networks, hearing their offers, learning their plans. The process involved quiet breakfasts in obscure restaurants, drinks and dinner in one suitor's apartment and marathon conversations in hotel rooms. "I find myself in a long final glide path," he said last week. "Three runways are stretched out before me. All three are beautiful. I could land on any one and be extremely happy...
Failure to capitalize on scoring opportunities, more than bad luck, though, hindered the Harvard effort. The icewomen would work the puck into the corner and pass it beautifully in front of the cage--only to watch it glide across the ice because no one had been ready...
Playing listlessly, the cagers fell behind 48-24 at the half and allowed the Wildcats to glide easily through the final 20 minutes. The hoopsters sorely missed the leadership of co-captain Caryn Curry, who missed the game...
...thousand, eight hundred feet above the trailer a single engine plane stalls, glides and drops two black dots. They grow. Their parachutes don't open but Maclaughlin ignores the two plummeting people. He looks steely-eyed at his charges, each of us with our heads tossed back, eyes wide open, jaws dropped, certain the two divers will, in less than 17 seconds, bounce and splatter on the grass. "Ooooo, ooooo" we say as two chutes blossom and the jumpers silently glide toward earth. Maclaughlin's brows are down, his lips pursed, his eyes still locked in on his students. "Snap...
Those three miles provide a spectacle that is as beautiful as it is chaotic; the sleek shells glide through the water in close and uneasy proximity to one another, and to more formidable obstacles--like bridges and the river bank...