Word: slid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parents, digging in the weird glare of floodlights strung above the wreckage, had recovered almost 400 bodies. Over a hastily assembled public address system the death roll was droned out to the waiting crowds of parents, newshawks, curiosity seekers. Over the rutted red clay roads, barred to other traffic, slid a steady line of trucks, bearing bodies to improvised morgues and first-aid stations in New London, Tyler, Overton, Kilgore, Henderson. A hospital about to be dedicated in Tyler was hurriedly opened, soon filled to overflowing. Ether, chloroform, bandages, coffins, everything failed. All night distracted men and women tried...
After almost 16 hours, the twin-motored monoplane slid down at Hawaii with a new record for the jump. Next day, mechanics achieved a flurry of headlines by discovering "a potential disaster threat" in faulty lubrication of the propeller bearings. That fixed Flyer Amelia climbed aboard with two of her crew to take off for the 1,940 mi. hop to Howland Island. Down the ong concrete runway of Luke Field the ship shot at 60 m.p.h. Suddenly the left tire blew out. Lurching, the plane rumpled its landing gear, careened 1,000 ft.. on its bottom...
...Corwin proceeded from step to step, building up a magnificent case against the propriety of the Supreme Court's powers, and then abruptly deserted his theme. Instead of forcing the inevitable issue, instead of determining then and there in whom lies ultimate authority and getting it over with, he slid all the way down the bannister again and perched beside Mr. Roosevelt's policy of "expediency". In the liberal camp there is great distrust of the amending process, not because it is sluggish, but because it may turn in the wrong verdict...
Ironside used the total immersion system- used to put on hip boots and dunk converts and some who didn't want to come in just then but who slid to Jesus on his bass notes. He used to circulate queasy looking gents through the oddie who'd tap you when you were just going good, say, on "Blood of the Lamb," and ask you to put in with The Faith. One of those guys gave me the rap once and I was about to hop over when my brother hissed a "Beat it," out of the side...
...total shadow that extends out into space from the night side of Earth is a slightly tapering cone. The partial shadow, or penumbra, is a slightly spreading cone. Earth did not swing directly between moon and sun last week, and the moon slid through the penumbra. Appulses of this kind are astronomical curiosities because an average of 85 occurs in a century, whereas total and partial eclipses (in which the moon passes wholly or partly through the cone of total shadow) happen almost twice as frequently. About twelve appulses in a century are, like last week's, conspicuous...