Word: skid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Skid Landing. Coming down, White put his plane into a cautious glide that permitted it to slow to Mach 3. Then he opened his speed brakes: four doorlike vanes near the tail that open into the air stream to add drag. They brought him down to Mach 2, which is strolling speed for the X-15. He decelerated gradually to subsonic speed, was soon in position for his landing approach at Rogers Dry Lake. Three miles from the touchdown point, he jettisoned the fin under the tail to clear the landing skids, and skidded to a clean landing...
...hero (James Darren) starts life with prospects that are not, to put it mildly, brilliant. He is the illegitimate son of a convicted killer and B-Girl Winters, who is hooked by-and sleeping with-a dope peddler (Ricardo Montalban). He grows up on Skid Row, where his playmates are rumblebums and his self-appointed guardians are a germy old barfly (Burl Ives), a good-natured prostitute (Jeanne Cooper), a slugnutty prizefighter (Rudolph Acosta), a junk-jabbing ginmill canary (Ella Fitzgerald) and a legless newsboy (Walter Burke) who packs a pretty little...
...couldn't stand to live with her any more because she wore so much cold cream on her face at night that her head would skid across the pillow and hit him in the head. He is now contemplating a new skidproof face cream." See EDUCATION, Against...
...looked very different. "This man," he wrote, "is flying back from Reno where he has just won a divorce from his wife. He couldn't stand to live with her any more because she wore so much cold cream on her face at night that her head would skid across the pillow and hit him in the head. He is now contemplating a new skidproof face cream...
Market Survey. In Detroit, sentenced to 30 days in jail for stealing a $5 rock-'n'-roll disk from a record shop, Earl Pearson explained: "I lifted a classical record from that same shop a couple of days ago. But I couldn't sell it on Skid Row. Everybody wanted rock 'n' roll...