Word: slid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reading. Silently it slithered behind her, raised its head, spread its threatening hood. As her father, looking up from his book, saw the cobra swaying above her, he whispered a tense warning not to move. Realizing that some danger lurked behind her, she stayed quite still until the snake slid away into the grass. From that day on, her superstitious mother was sure that a great destiny awaited the little girl, for there is an old Indian legend that luck will attend a sitting or sleeping person above whom a cobra has spread its hood...
Inside, members and lucky strangers sat through a dull "Question Time." It was just ending when Clement Attlee slipped in, scarcely noticed. Ernest Bevin, for one, did not see him. Bevin was on his feet answering a foreign policy question. Attlee slid down the bench just in time to avoid his Foreign Secretary's 240-lb. bulk as Bevin took a pace back, prepared to sit down...
...something to the helmsman, but his warning was drowned by the children's singing. The launch plowed into a rusty underwater steel pylon, placed there by the Germans as an anti-submarine obstacle. For a moment the launch's prow hung in the air, then the stern slid swiftly under water. Without a punctuating pause, the children's songs became screams...
...hard on the belly with an awful jar which would not stop. We slid across the sand. We who could, jumped out. The other survivors were handed down and we dragged them away. The plane burned slowly at first, and then fiercely. I do not remember too well. There wasn't any sound but those flames...
Last week, before the biggest (130,000) crowd that any U.S. sport event brings together, the two drivers slid into the cockpits of Lou Moore's identical light-blue racers. The field of 30 speedsters, their temperamental engines sucking in blends of gas and alcohol, snarled through the first lap at 122 m.p.h...