Word: slid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tight, concise tone to it. He revealed it, at its best, as a line of high eloquence, although sometimes it was merely a dry-throated recitation. Later, the movement rose to a shuddering gong-burst of sound, and both orchestra and soloist glided into a barely comprehensible maneuver that slid to a high, fine-drawn conclusion...
...finding the range. In the twelfth, he landed a looping left flush on DeMarco's jaw. The challenger was out on his feet. A merciful shove would have sent him down, but Basilio lowered his sights and fired away at Tony's body. Slowly and gracelessly, Tony slid to the canvas. He was up at the count of eight. Basilio moved in to finish him, but Referee Mel Manning was faster. He brushed Basilio aside and took his time slowly wiping the resin from Tony's gloves. It was a wasted effort. Tony was still out when...
...they became the courtiers of Queen Isabella's palace. In her own special way, she was avenging the snubs she suffered from society many years before when she first came to Boston. After a concert by the Boston Boston Symphony Orchestra, a miror at the side of the room slid back, and the guests saw a great courtyard, filled with flowers, lit by lanterns, studded with statues, and surrounded by great balconies...
...they slid from the 1951 peak, farmers have fared much better than they did after World War I. In the two years after the farm peak of that war, gross farm income dropped 41% and the net fell 60%. More than four years after the war-induced peak of the World War II-Korean War era, farmers are still better off than they were in the late 19303. In 1940, with a gross income of $11 billion and a net of $4.3 billion, the farm-parity ratio (balancing what the farmer sells against what he buys...
...result, goalie Lindsay Fischer, himself fitted out with a special pad to protect an injured rib cage, was under constant pressure. Neither he nor McKeon had much mobility in the mud, but at least twice Fischer slid headlong to grab shots, and his remarkable performance was hardly marred by the fact that two goals got past...