Word: slid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yale won the Big-Three soccer championship by edging the Crimson Varsity booters, 3 to 2, yesterday afternoon on the Business School Field. A driving rain coupled with a wind of gale-like proportions made accurate passing and hard running next to impossible as both sides skidded and slid through 88 minutes of fairly even play...
...Yankee Stadium crowd was still oohing in amazement, Louis bounced off the ropes and went to work. Tami went down under a barrage of lefts and rights, got up at the count of nine, landed one more solid sock, took half a dozen in return. Then he slid slowly down the rópes and assumed the inelegant position of 20 Louis challengers before...
...Seat. In Munnsville, N.Y., Farmer Wesley Bolin slid down a rope from a hayloft, set off matches in his pocket, watched his barn burn to the ground...
Harold E. Stassen stepped into a Pasadena, Calif, elevator, and too many stylish-stout members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce jammed in after him. The elevator struggled upward a half-story, halted, slid gently down to the basement...
...early records (West End Blues, etc.) were bigger hits in Europe than in the U.S. He followed them across the Atlantic in 1931. Those were the days when he blew screeching high notes that he probably could not make consistently today. When he hit 280 high Cs and then slid up into F one evening, a London theater manager begged him to cut it to 70 Cs, because the noise made him nervous while trying to count the receipts...