Word: slid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slid over the side of our raft and held on," said the second officer. "We heard a voice saying in perfect English: 'Come alongside boys.' After a while somebody said in German: 'There's nobody on this one.' Then the raider disappeared. Later we found lifeboats with their oars shipped, indicating that some of the men had accepted the invitation to go alongside and had been taken prisoner aboard the raider...
...account of her destruction. Thorpe was aboard. "Violent explosions" sent him rushing to the quarterdeck. As the Eagle heeled over, "six-inch shells, each weighing 100 lb., tore loose from their brackets and bumped down the clifflike deck." Seamen flung themselves overboard to escape the runaway shells. Thorpe himself slid down a rope into the thick, oil-coated sea, let go, realized with horror that he had not blown enough air into his lifebelt. He thrashed his way to a cork float...
...third with a single to center, advancing when Bill Barnes was forced. Jim Gallagher walked and Fitzgibbons stole third. Drake took first on a fielder's error with Fitzgibbons scoring on the play and Gallagher moving to second. Hamlen's fielder's choice moved him around, and he slid in for the run. In the fifth Gallagher's walk, Drake's sacrifice bunt, and Hamlen's single brought in another tally...
From the high camp on the Neve the party slid and dropped down the treacherous 3000 foot descent to Glacier Circle. On arriving at the foot of the Glacier they spotted the remaining two members of the party, marked by their flashlights, heading straight for the two hundred foot drop straight off the glacier...
...Abandon ship!" Before they slid overside into the sea, to be picked up by destroyers and cruisers, all the men lined their shoes in orderly rows on the flight deck. As Captain Sherman followed the last of his crew overboard, another explosion shook the ship. A little later, lest she fall into Jap hands or endanger other ships, a U.S. destroyer torpedoed the Lexington's flaming hulk. "That," said Admiral Sherman, "was the end of the Lexington...