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Word: glided (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dublin sound was fresh and new but rapidly stagnating. Though U2 gained a foothold in the American market by accenting their insular origin, they must develop something beyond their formula to hold onto their popularity. Otherwise they will suffer the fate of ephemeral bands like the Knack and glide right back into obscurity...

Author: By Michael Hasselmo, | Title: Autumn Rhythms | 1/5/1982 | See Source »

...arena, has already unchained the doors for her and then disappeared. She's alone in the cavernous arena to practice figure-skating routines, and it's nice to click on the Panasonic and step onto the ice, performing to the undivided attention of 2000 mute chairs while sound waves glide across the ice and reverberate off the wooden rafters high above...

Author: By John Rippey, | Title: A Return to the Stage | 12/5/1981 | See Source »

...they glide up a winding staircase and into the spiraling ecstasy of a dozen dizzying pirouettes. Suddenly she is gone. He is alone. The dance is over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Can Dance a Little | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

When the shuttle made its first flight last April, NASA sought to prove to itself and the world that the craft could really roar up into space like a rocket, then glide safely back to earth like a plane. This week the U.S. space agency is engaging in quite another sort of test. Flying "upside down" high above the earth, Columbia will try out a $100 million, Canadian-built "arm in space." Unless the Remote Manipulator System, as the huge skyhook is called in NASA jargon, really works, the shuttle will be unable to perform one of its key roles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Putting an Arm on Space | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...capacious world of light brick and tile carved underground. Montreal Metro is a marvel of cleanliness - quietness and efficiency. Long-blue-stylish trains glide smoothly on inflated rubber tires over steel rail. If Reagan cared at all for America, they would restore New York's frightful subway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ratliff File | 10/22/1981 | See Source »

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