Word: slid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Averaging about 60 miles a day, the Presidential yacht Potomac, escorted by the destroyer U.S.S. Benson, slid away from the ship lanes, around Great Isaac Island, Great Stirrup Cay, Mangrove Cay and Grand Bahama, little paradises of white beaches, tropical palms and turquoise water. Adviser Hopkins landed a 4-foot, 25-lb. kingfish; Secretary Stephen T. Early hooked an 80-lb. shark...
...Mass, admirer came prompt reaction in grave scrawl to Wendell Willkie's Lincoln Day address: "Dear Mr. Willkie, Your speech last night was very good. I heard my grandfather jump up and down. The poor cat and dog were scared stiff. In the afternoon I went out and slid with a tin pan. I am nine years old, and am in the fourth grade. Sincerely yours, Hilda Thompson...
...roles with her own personality. In Morning Glory and Little Women, which capped her early Hollywood success, she was full of the eager, well-bred enthusiasm she absorbed in a free-thinking but socially impeccable Hartford, Conn, family. Then in two dreary cinemadapted James Barrie plays, she slid into interpretations as heavy and lifeless as plum duff. Two years ago, she and Hollywood called it quits...
...aircraft began going downhill fast. I slid back the hood and began to get out, my goggles were shipped off and my helmet began to lift up in the slip stream; I realized I hadn't undone my straps so I pulled out the retain ing pin and stood up, standing on anything which came handy (the seat, the instrument panel or the stick, I don't know really...
...which is about 100 miles north of Boston. As quakes go, they did not amount to much, but near the epicentres they were the most violent ever recorded with modern instruments in solid old New England. Chimneys tumbled, dishes and canned goods fell from shelves, walls cracked, furniture slid. In Milton, Mass, a woman telephoned to police to find out whether the Navy ammunition depot at Hingham had blown up. In White Plains, N. Y. a filling-station attendant yelled that the Kensico dam had burst. In South Portland, Me. a woman got dizzy, fell down, hurt her head...