Word: skid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
...come from regular hospital donors-medical students, nurses, technicians and outside contributors. All were tested and found free from malaria, as was one commercial donor. The three others could not be found at the addresses they had given. One of those addresses was on Manhattan's traditional Skid Row, the Bowery...
...which, beginning with Manhattan's Lever House, made stark glass-and-steel structures into the silhouette of U.S. business prestige; after a long illness; in Winter Haven, Fla. From the firm's start in 1936 until his retirement because of ill-health in 1955, dapper, Indiana-born "Skid" set his sights by Mies van der Rohe's hard-edged lines, attracted some of the nation's top architects into S.O.M.'s aggressive, 600-man team that since 1945 has designed $2.5 billion worth of buildings from the U.S. Air Force Academy to Chicago...
...sooner had Gilbert fled to Brazil than a New York building materials firm named the Ruberoid Co. decided to make a try for Celotex. It offered to buy 350,000 Celotex shares at $25 apiece-which was 8¾ above Celotex's lowest price after the Blue Monday skid but 17⅜ below the 1962 high of 42⅜ that the stock hit during Gilbert's maneuvers last February. Last week cool, lanky James Willis Walter, 39, founder of Tampa, Fla.'s Jim Walter Corp.-which he has parlayed from a $400 loan into the nation...