Word: slid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From North Carolina's port side burst a flaming earthquake-a roar that shattered its way to the marrow of man, a lurid flame that seemed to lick the water for hundreds of yards and lift itself above the ranging top of the foremast. The deck slid to starboard, oscillated to port, leveled off handily, rode steady again...
...market trends frequently have followed London's, after a time lag of varying duration. From war's beginning until last winter, London and New York quotations moved almost as one (see chart). Both markets slid sharply during the Lowlands campaign, hit bottom after Dunkirk and France's fall. Then began a slow recovery, interrupted by another decline with the Nazi spring successes...
Jubilo. It had been a good year. "The good land lay beneath the sun. And the mules with sleek sides . . . slid the flashing plows through the good land and laid it wide for planting. . . . The owners of the pale green striped fields pushed their feet deep into the pulverized ground. . . . Best stand we've had since Nineteen Twenty. We'll make a whopper of a crop this year...
...except for some further gestures of rescue. Diver George Crocker slid down a grapnel line to 370 feet, found that his special mixture of helium and oxygen (to keep nitrogen out of the blood stream, thus forestall bends) was failing him. Later, two divers did reach the bottom, in the subterranean dark and pressure could see nothing, do nothing. On the third day, the Chief of Naval Operations (Admiral Stark) in Washington announced: "The decision must be to accept the situation as loss of naval personnel at sea, who can best be honored as men still at their station...
...familiar hell-roaring vein, the Premier slid over defeats, bellowed the might of the Axis. "It is absolutely mathematical that in April, even if nothing had happened to change the Balkan situation, the Italian Army would have overcome and annihilated the Greek Army." Almost all of Greece would be occupied by Italian troops. Italian Albania would be extended. Italy's dead in Africa ("I cannot tell you today when or how") would be avenged...