Word: slid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were nervously tense and doubtful.... As we made our way on deck the Chaplain pressed the arm of each of us and said: "Good Luck." Amid confused shouting we slid one by one down a rope into the boat and suddenly the boat was in the water, rocking sickeningly...
...three locks (the Weitzel has been too shallow to use since 1919) staggering tonnage totals flowed; in 1929 some 92,000,000 tons, more than through the Panama, Suez and Kiel canals combined. In the short season, nipped to eight months by ice, as many as 16,000 ships slid through the locks, one every 20 minutes...
Toward Salamaua. At one minute past midnight, through high waves buffeting them across treacherous reefs, assault boats slid onto the sand along Nassau Bay, twelve miles below Salamaua. Hovering offshore in a choppy sea were the slim, nervous shapes of Navy PT boats. Whispering troops swarmed ashore. No Japs opposed them. Patrols fanned out to the north and south, feeling for the enemy...
Then destroyers and transports slid into Blanche Channel (between Rendova and New Georgia). Just before a stormy dawn, the transports hove to off Rendova. Landing barges snaked their way swiftly through a reef-jagged channel and ashore. Above loomed the jungle-robed, broken crater of Rendova Peak...
Cocking his head, hunching his shoulders, caressing the microphone, Sinatra slid into She's Funny That Way, purring the words: "I'm not much to look at, nothin' to see." "Oh, Frankie, yes you are!" wailed the audience. The song over, Sinatra started to leave the stage. "Don't go!" whimpered the little girls. He gave them an encore, mooned: "The mate that fate had me created for." Thereupon a delegation of them rose, whinnying: "Here I am, Frankie!" "Frankie, look at me!" The band had to play the Star-Spangled Banner...