Word: glides
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W.E.B. Du Bois expressed this idea better: "I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not," Du Bois wrote. "Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in glided halls. From out of the caves of evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn or condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil...
...television audience watches the world's greatest athletes gracefully glide to victory in the pristine setting of Lillehammer, even seemingly sedentary members of the Clinton Administration think back to their own past sporting glories...
Ibsen she's not, but Roffe-Steinrotter was poetry in motion as the first American woman to win an Olympic Alpine ski race in a decade. It was the second surprise victory of the week for the U.S. Her countryman Tommy Moe had blasted off with a gilded glide in the downhill and followed with a silver medal in the men's super-G. "I've skied my butt off," said Moe, a square- jawed, square-talking Alaskan. "Now it's paying off." On Saturday Americans struck ore again with a silver in the women's downhill for the irrepressible...
...support the endeavor? For one thing, the future stars tend to know right away that they can really excel at this. In Kerrigan's case, her group of 6-year-olds was still sitting on the ice waiting for the teacher to show them how to stand and glide when little Nancy began sketching spins. Skating talent - if not the persistence to perfect it - is almost always obvious...
Some of the rides are almost mystical. In Virtual Adventures, by Iwerks Entertainment, you glide underwater to rescue rare eggs hatched by a benevolent Loch Ness creature. The other games are a mix of Captain Kirk and Beavis and Butt-head; this one is Barney...