Word: slid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...timbers in here put in long before this was the U. S. A.!" We walked, waded, crawled & scrambled & slid through the endless tunnels-"there's 500 miles of tunnel in this mountain," the boys said-down 200 feet of sharply sloping rock piles, peered down fearful shafts, heard about the mine's famous ghosts and were mighty glad to get out of there, I tell...
...show's one really hot number came when the entire cast went to town with He Is an Englishman, first treating the tune straight, then sweetening it in waltz-time, finally letting fly with a full blast of boogie-woogie while the dancers stomped, slid, slithered...
While guests at Juan-les-Pins bathed in her great pool cut out of solid rock, or slid down a long chute into the Mediterranean, Maxine Elliott, no longer beautiful, played with her famed monkey Kiki, ate whole chocolate layer cakes for lunch. She grew, old there, and monstrous fat. There, last week, she died...
...inches he lost because of this, and went into his final turn without a breath--in other words, a sprint turn. The two dug water like 50-men for the last half-lap, and their leading arms came over for the final stroke together. But Choutean's hand slid under the line first, ending a superb contest in which both competitions swam their all-time fastest quarter-mile...
...orders to do so, into Norwegian waters from their stations on North Sea patrol raced a British cruiser and five destroyers. The destroyer Intrepid halted the Altmark, but while Captain Philip Louis Vian of the senior destroyer Cossack had words with the Norwegian gunboat's commander, the Altmark slid into Joesing Fjord, a deep, narrow, dead-end harbor five miles long. Another Norwegian gunboat appeared, joining the first to bar the fjord to the British...