Word: slid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dogs, nicely crated and tagged with their No. 1 priorities, were stowed away beside him on the plane. He lounged, watching the good earth below. Somebody said something about "royal pets." The Lieutenant turned. His fellow passengers were glaring at him. What could the matter be? The cold stares slid over him like a glacier...
...mercury climbed as the men worked forward through a rough country of dank forests, steep hills, sharp little valleys and winding streams. The snow that had blinded them during the German breakthrough, the ice that had immobilized their trucks turned into deep slush and mud through which they slid and slithered...
Halifax fishermen were in luck the moment the tow line snapped. Driven by the wind, the disabled U.S. Liberty ship drifted helplessly away from the tug which was towing her into port. She slid past the islands which ring Halifax's outer harbor, grounded firmly on Lobster Claw Ledge. Rocks under the sea smashed her hull. She lay broken near the land, her mid decks awash...
Rundstedt also attacked, drove desperately and skillfully at Monschau, at the northeast corner of Luxembourg, and at two points farther south, not far from the Moselle. First Army headquarters declared that some penetrations were "sealed off" (a familiar cliché in German communiques), but the enemy slid away from the seal-offs, advanced alongside. Prisoners, of whom the First seized more than a thousand the first day, said they had been told they would be "in Paris by Christmas.'' Some Germans were so inflamed with savagery by the switch from retreat to attack that they murdered U.S. prisoners...
Forty yards to our right and 60 to our left, the Crocks were still shooting their liquid death across the canal in spurts that slid over the water, then arched high into the air, hitting the bank and curling along and over it toward the Jerries' trenches. Everything it touched withered, then burst into flame...