Word: slid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside the chapel, as the last notes of the heralding chorales died away, the 236 members of the great festival choir filed into their seats in the chancel in back of the orchestra. Boston's E. Power Biggs slid onto his bench at the organ. The soloists, including the Metropolitan Opera's bass, Mack Harrell, took their seats in front. In decorous silence-there is no applause in Packer Chapel-Welsh-born Conductor Ifor Jones strode to the podium. After a darting look around, he lifted his hands to begin the great double-chorused Passion According...
...back of his neck, the Vagabond merged himself slowly with his surroundings. The Kentucky Derby, the Term Bill, the grey flannels that needed pressing--all worldly items left his mind as he felt himself received into an aesthetic oneness with Lamont, its books, and fresh, circulating air. The book slid from his grasp, down his leg to stop inside his pants cuff, the last mundane thought slipped from his conscious. Vag was having an aesthetic experience...
Veteran Rayburn could tell from the dutiful applause that he had lost. In obedience to John Lewis' orders, some Democrats from Lewis' coal-mining districts slid over to the Republican side; Sam's proposition went down by a 211-to-183 vote. Then the House took a roll-call vote on the Wood bill. The coalition measure won its preliminary test...
...once proud Eliot slid from fourth to fifth place in the House Baseball League yesterday, losing, 6 to 8 to Dudley...
...softball Dudley slid by Winthrop, 4 to 3, and Leverett smashed Dunster...