Word: slid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woman got off the rope and I slid down it. It must have been a 12-ft. drop and the lifeboat was jumping to the swell. But my arms felt strong and I landed right in the middle and scrambled to the side...
Dickson was in the bows and managed to free the falls from that end, but before the stern falls could be cut or cast off, the Yorkshire reared her bows into the air and slid backwards to the bottom...
...make an unbroken trail past heaps of oil-soaked waste to the ship's fuel tanks. When all was ready, Very signal pistols and long matches were used to touch off the fire everywhere at once. Within an hour of ordering his ship's destruction, Captain Daehne slid last down a rope into his motor launch, confident that no Briton could board what soon became a sinking inferno...