Word: skid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to. Inside the airbase, a damaged American helicopter, one skid broken off, lay on the ground, its rotor still spinning. A tremendous explosion rocked our bus as a North Vietnamese 130-mm. shell hit the Air America terminal just across the road. "Don't panic!" shouted our Marine escort...
...Jackal. That night the anxiety turned out to be misplaced only in geography. Once again the murderer struck, but this time some six miles from Skid Row. The eighth victim, George Frias, 45, a catering-service secretary, was found in his modern first-floor Hollywood apartment on distant North Kingsley Drive, but he had worked near where the other victims were slain. His throat, too, was slit. A ninth man, also presumed to be a victim of the Slasher, was discovered two days later less than a mile away in another Hollywood apartment...
...Among Skid Row drinkers and drifters, rumors and suspicion of strangers and each other run high. Augustine Cruz, 58, shakily raised his plastic coffee cup at the Union Rescue Mission and rolled his bloodshot eyes as he recalled that several of the victims used to bed down with him on the library lawn where one of the murders took place: "I want this guy bad. He's already got three of my buddies. But why kill winos? What does he want?" Some of the younger men shrug it off. "Long as he doesn't bother...
...Says the mission chaplain, George Caywood: "Everybody is looking at everybody else. We're all praying the Lord will help the police. These men are our friends. It really grieves us to see them so frightened." But no one could offer them any reason to hope that the Skid Row Slasher would not strike again...
Floor Traffic. Thus the sudden skid in car sales hit the already shaky economy with the impact of a runaway truck, toppling it into a much deeper recession than almost anyone had anticipated. Government economists estimate that the car slump accounted for fully half of the 9.1% decline in gross national product in the fourth quarter of 1974 and was the major factor in lifting the nation's jobless rate to more than 7%. Moreover, chances for even a moderate business recovery in the year ahead depend to an enormous degree on a resurgence of car sales...