Word: skid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Mazie Phillips, 72, angel of mercy to Manhattan's Bowery bums, a guttural-voiced platinum blonde who worked as a cashier in a Skid Row moviehouse and for 50 years comforted every bench warmer, panhandler and swillbelly with a quarter here, a nip there, believing that more organized forms of charity were doomed because "you ain't goin' to get a bum in a mission if there's a gutter to sleep in"; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
...nature of high-speed expressways that the slightest obstruction, like a pebble in a rifle barrel, creates chaos. Martin's skid jammed traffic for ten miles, blocked the highway for three hours...
...charged that he had taken "loans" from National's lawyer), after which his longtime alcoholism reached the point where he was unable to stand trial for fraud, lived his last years in and out of hospitals and on handouts; in Miami, where police found his body in a Skid Row room five to eight days after death, presumably of cirrhosis of the liver...
Admittedly, it is impossible logically to prove that such knowledge is necessary to the non-scientist. A classics professor may ride an airplane, watch leaves turn color, skid in his car--and have no idea why these things happen. He may not care, and it is hard to show that he needs to care...
...Shortly after midnight, Meixner drove to the entrance of the frontier area, showed his Austrian passport to a guard, who waved him on to the customs officer. Bricks for Mamma. It was the time for action. Instead of pulling up at the customs shed, Meixner gunned his motor, skidded around the slalom barriers, and shot past the startled guard. Looming before him was that last bar. For one terrifying moment, it seemed too low to clear. But he had measured well. Jamming his foot on the accelerator, Meixner ducked his head and whizzed into West Berlin. By the time...