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Word: glided (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Cagers Lose Third Straight To UNH Five | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Stepping Out Over Taunton | 11/14/1979 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: 3200 to Join Charles Regatta | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...raised a different kind of question: Is the FAA system for testing private pilots stringent enough? While the report on the accident has not yet been released, federal investigators unofficially cited mistakes by Munson as the probable cause. Munson had let his $1.2 million jet settle below the proper glide path, failed to extend the wing flaps for better lift and control and then, in trying to correct his dangerously low approach, had applied engine power too slowly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Air Scares | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...this aerial activity, Moscow is completing two electronic eavesdropping complexes in Laos, and has started construction of a radar tracking center near Sisophon, in northwestern Cambodia. Soviet merchantmen ply between Vietnamese coast ports and the Cambodian port of Kompong Som on resupply missions. Submarines of the Soviet Pacific fleet glide in and out of the huge American-built complex at Cam Ranh Bay, even though it is not a full-fledged Soviet naval base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: The Soviets Settle In | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

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