Word: skid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expected to slow down. Early mornings and even Sundays were loud with the sound of carpenters' hammers as builders rushed new apartments to completion in the good weather. Personal income was the highest ever, unemployment at a postwar ebb. Nevertheless, at Chicago's Harbor Light on Skid Row, the Salvation Army began passing out overcoats, and drunks were jackrolled in the gutters for their clothes. The first leaves fell from the poplars and scuttered across the sidewalks. In the suburbs, there was the smell of burning leaves...
Gentlemen's Agreement. In Salt Lake City, cops hurried to the scene of a traffic accident, found only tire skid marks, broken glass and a note: "Everything settled satisfactorily...
...Catalogue. With that, Actor Hayden went back to work on his latest picture, Skid Row, and the committeemen turned to some less cooperative witnesses. Actor Will Geer, one of the Jeeter Lesters of Tobacco Road, strode nonchalantly to the stand and amiably refused to answer any questions about Communist membership: "This is an emotional and hysterical question. I stand on the rights of the Fifth Amendment." Less pleasantly, three minor Hollywood writers also defied the committeemen...
Judge Stone pulled the receiver of his hearing aid outside his coat and started on the drunks. A ragged little skid row resident leaped to his feet when the bailiff called out his name. He heard that he was charged with being drunk and jerked his head up and down on the first part of the question "Guilty or not guilty...
...share of weather and upsets. At Columbus, Ohio, in the face of 30-m.p.h. winds and blinding snow, Michigan was unable to manage even one first down, but did manage to skid past Ohio State, 9-3. Illinois, with its bags half packed for a Rose Bowl trip, was frozen out of the journey and the Big Ten title by Northwestern, 14-7. Though once tied and thrice beaten, Michigan, as conference champions, will go to the Rose Bowl. Michigan's opponent: unbeaten California, which had its record only slightly marred by Stanford...