Word: slid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such rumors were momentarily quieted when the President suddenly turned up at the Panama Canal after two days and three nights of steady steaming. He swiftly inspected the Zone defenses, boarded the Tuscaloosa again, slid out into the broad Pacific. Washington, like a husband whose wife is away, wondered a little, worried a little, went about its work with a slightly lost feeling...
...Mikkola-men were somewhat out of their class in other events: Dan Donahue slid into the semi-finals in the 45 yard high hurdles, but was eliminated in the fast 5 7-10 finals time. Tommy Lussen of Yale only placed second with a 14 foot pole vault, a foot over Steve Madey's best. The two mile relay team was lapped by the record-breaking Manhattan College foursome...
...widely they patrol the Seven Seas the British demonstrated last week when one of their cruisers (her name painted out) slid up to the Japanese liner Asama Maru, homeward bound from San Francisco, just as she raised land off Yokohama. A shot over his bows was needed to make the Japanese captain stop. Three British officers and nine seamen went aboard. They had a list of German passengers on the Asama Maru, whose passports they proceeded to check. One German hid in the ship's false funnel, another in a barrel, but the boarding party seized and removed...
...King Ananda, 14, monarch of Thailand (formerly Siam), played shinny with his brother, Prince Pumipol, on a Swiss lake. On a canal in The Hague, Princess Juliana wobbled on old-fangled Dutch curl-tipped skates with the Baroness Van Asbeck. Out on the pool before Drottningholm Castle near Stockholm slid Prince Gustaf Adolf, eldest son of the Swedish Crown Prince, with his sprawling little daughters, Princesses Margaretha and Birgitta...
...Australian marine engineers who arrived in Manhattan with accounts of how they and a crew of twelve scuttled an obsolete 10,000-tonner (one of six) in a channel of Scapa Flow After plugging the nose of the vessel into a mudbank, they left her with engines racing forward, slid overside on ropes in time to escape blasts set off in her hold by electric impulse from shore. Workmen had replaced steel plates with wooden planking in sections of the ship's bottom. The hull settled into place to help block a Scapa inlet and avert another submarine slip...