Word: glides
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...appeared, Skipper Lousma cheerfully announced, "I think we're booming right over the Commander in Chiefs ranch right now." In fact, he was above Baja California, rather than the hills north of Los Angeles, site of President Reagan's retreat. Apparently he was still thinking of the glide path the shuttle would have followed had it landed as scheduled the day before...
From a distance, seemingly beyond the stage, the workshop of an eccentric inventor swims into view, its cheery interior alive with whirring mechanical toys that no child has ever imagined. Gondolas glide serenely through the perfumed, decadent atmosphere of La Serenissima-Venice, dark and dangerous. A placid bourgeois home suddenly explodes with the nightmarish visitation of a sinister, cadaverous physician who walks through walls and bursts from fireplaces in a ball of flame...
Racing, however, is not the main attraction for the kick-and-glide set, many of whom have never skied before. The allurement is the sport's unhurried solitude. At big downhill resorts there are often agonizing waits for ski lifts, and eateries are jammed. Mobs of hot-doggers and snow bunnies have turned Stowe and Vail into adrenalized assembly lines of sport. At the Home Ranch the pace slows. Its 580 aspen-studded acres offer cross-country skiers 20 miles of trails glistening in 2 ft. of new powder. Twenty guests-the inn's capacity-enjoy wine...
...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...
...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...