Word: slid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fell through an open bomb bay. Griffiths grabbed a bay door and hung on, but could not pull himself back into the plane. Pilot Sidney Gerow, unable to leave the controls and help Griffiths, swooped low over frozen Lake St. Louis and snouted: "Let go!" Griffiths fell 30 feet, slid along the ice, got up and walked away-bruised, frostbitten, unharmed...
Shucks. In Okmulgee, Okla., a fire alarm roused the fire chief, who forgot the matches in his pocket, leaped to the brass pole and slid down, setting his shirt afire...
...that in the Stalingrad region the temperature had dropped to 29° F. below zero. Floating ice clogged the Volga, stopping Soviet shipping for the winter and robbing Hitler of the only bitter satisfaction he might have received from the whole Stalingrad adventure. Radiators froze; narrow-treaded German tanks slid along weakly on their bellies; breechblocks became stiff; transmission oil jelled...
...Peary was not built quite so fast, but on Thursday she slid into the water, 90% complete, after four days, 15½ hours on the ways. Only event of the week to compare with the performance was Pacific Bridge Co.'s launching of a much smaller 4,000-ton ship in three and a third days, but only 70% complete. Both builders had indeed performed miracles. But neither Showman Kaiser nor Pacific Bridge would tell how many man-hours went into prefabrication...
Already this fall three dances have lured Freshmen to the darkling shores of Lake Waban, for the most openly maternalistic treatment they've had in a long time. Free tickets went to '46ers for the last two dances, but the inevitable minority of shaving upperclassmen slid in. Committeemen, they said...