Word: skid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about the time they got the young man to Sydenham Hospital the thunder crashed and the rain came down. They called Acting Chief Surgeon Dr. Edward Finestone in from Far Rockaway, 24 miles out on Long Island. Dr. Finestone, driving in fast through the storm, had a bad skid and a slight crackup, but he got to the hospital...
...Skid...
Ford, unlike most makers, made more changes inside than out. Among mechanical improvements: 1) for a softer ride, its lateral wheel base is broadened (front: 2¼ inches; rear: if inches); 2) to lessen skid danger, braking pressure is now distributed not evenly but 60% to the front wheels, 40% to the rear; 3) the exhaust system has been "streamlined." The Ford front end has been redesigned around a small, rectangular grille, and gingerbread held to a pleasing minimum...
...roller overturned, plowed up the pavement in a 9-ft. skid on its back, ground to a stop. Solt, his right leg bruised and his back sprained, crawled to the roller, closed the shut-off valve on the high-pressure fuel tank. Then he was carried home, to the six boys and four girls he had not forgotten...
High-middling is I Love My Bonny Bride, a virtuoso piece in which the preparations for a 19th-Century wedding are perceived through a child. Weakest is Love by the Highway, in which a man and woman talk finishing-school folk poetry, skid off the thin edge into silliness...