Word: skidded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what if the "Skid Row" number from Little Shop of Horrors were an hour-and-a-half drama...
...losing streak, or The Streak as the Columbia campus has come to refer to the four-year skid, is about to reach record proportions. If the Lions keep on losing, and lose at Princeton on October 10, Columbia will have lost 35 consecutive games...
During the Great Depression, the newly homeless squatted outside American cities in shantytowns derisively christened Hoovervilles. Last week Los Angeles opened a spruced-up, officially sanctioned version of the same thing, called an "urban campground," on a dusty, windswept lot between the Los Angeles River and the city's skid row. From a distance, the rows of yellow- and-white canopies look as if they might have been set up for a garden party. But inside are only Army-green cots with portable toilets placed nearby. Guards from the Salvation Army, which worked with Mayor Tom Bradley to establish...
...over the beach at Kitty Hawk, N.C. Orville's turn came three days later, Dec. 17, 1903, at 10:35 a.m. He took the clattering rig to an altitude of 10 ft. and traveled through the air for about 40 yds. before coming down hard enough to crack a skid...
This made sense to Rush, and so did Sykes' idea of how to be an entrepreneur: "Leave skid marks at the edge of the cliff." Rush was about to leave some. The year before, 1980, he had failed to fill a 500-seat rock club in Boston for a Christmas show, at $7 a ticket. Now he booked the city's classiest concert house, the 2,600-seat Symphony Hall, for a year-end performance at $15. It was a $20,000 gamble, and it paid off in a sellout. A year later, when he repeated the concert, Bostonians talked...