Word: slid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...philosophy. The alcohol inflaming one mind had, however, quite numbed the other and not even a shoe, which Mr. Carson picked up and hurled, could revive the argument. Transported with drunken rage, Philosopher Carson sprang at the sleeper, raining blows with the shoe upon the lolling head. Prof. Buermeyer slid from his chair to the floor. Mr. Carson, panting, mixed and drank another tumbler of alcohol and water, glared blearily at the body, then fell asleep himself. Hours later he awoke and, without looking to see how his friend fared, staggered home for more sleep...
...than now, were generated...At last, about the middle of the Mesozoic Era, the unique continent finally succumbed to the pull toward the Pacific. It broke into huge fragments, the Americas, Eurasia-Africa. Australasia, and Antarctica. The last, Antarctica, seems not to have moved much horizontally. The others slowly slid, with haltings and renewed sliding, toward the Pacific. The great mountain arcs of the Circum-Pacific-Zone were born and slowly gained in strength as the continental fragments slipped down over the earth's body. During the process of folding along the border of the invaded Pacific, basaltic floods were...
...chip of rubber, came to rest over his right shoulder. Three hundred yards down the course the ball stopped rolling. Jones took an iron, swung it up-down. One hundred and eighty yards, splitting the pin all the way, the ball flew as if drawn on an invisible wire, slid four yards past the hole. Turnesa, watching, brushed his hand across his forehead. So it was all no use, his own fight over the harsh Scioto course, with its clods like stones, no use, the 294 that meant riches, pleasure, fame. Jones had two to win. His first putt missed...
Misaji Kawahara came and saw. Misaji had loved the poor horse well. Loosening the halter he tied its free end to a branch twelve feet from the ground, slipped the noose about his own neck, slid off the branch to tend his horse in another world...
...pitiable figures, one of them with an empty sleeve dangling at its side, were dragged into the main street. A A rope was put around the neck of each and the free end was thrown over the cross bar of a lamp post. Strong arms pulled, the ropes slid over the bar, and the two figures hung inert and lifeless in midair. The crowd cheered...