Word: slid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corps posts that one or another of our Army & Navy reporters has not visited for you in the past three years-in the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, Great Britain, Australia or the Hawaiians. They have looped in gliders at Twentynine Palms, sweated in tanks at Fort Knox, Ky., slid in the snow with the ski troopers on Mt. Rainier. They have visited scores of aircraft factories, tank arsenals and munitions plants-spent hours and even days in the testing laboratories and on the firing ranges -sailed on some of our biggest war ships...
Near dusty Teheran, where cargo from the U.S. and Britain is taken over by the Russians, the plane slid down. Briefly the public eye caught the Archbishop in a characteristic pose. In an open-air chapel, once the Shah's garden, he celebrated field mass. A portable organ played; a U.S. servicemen's choir sang. The hands of the Archbishop held aloft in benison were speckled red with the bites of Iran's hungry sandflies...
Around a wishing well among the administration buildings clustered 43 bronzed and windburned women in slacks and white blouses, their eyes on a leggy Air Forces colonel. He dug in his pocket, fished out a silver dollar, tossed it into the well, where it slid down among dimes and quarters dropped there by students for luck. (They are fished out periodically for the Red Cross...
...mountain slopes that they had never heard of in their school geography books. To a man they had wanted to get the job done and over with. They had known, as the people knew at home, that the Battle of Africa was the prologue, on which the curtain now slid down...
...Greenland's icecap, through a formless, numbing nothingness of snow and ice and haze and white fingers of sun feeling through clouds. Suddenly there was the awful crunch of hull against frozen snow and ice. The pilots grabbed for the throttles. The plane rose for an instant, settled, slid 300 feet up the slope of centuries-old ice, turned to rest on her left wing tip, stopped dead. An alert radio operator flashed...