Word: slid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rose only 6%, to $29,178,685. Many another company increased its gross but profits dropped. General Electric, with a new high in sales and pre-tax profits, wound up with a 5% drop in its net (to $34,996,395). International Business Machines did the same: its net slid from $7,669,736 to $7,218,635. And industries such as television, which were hit by a sales slump, were also down. Admiral's net dropped from...
...Maesaka slid home in today's practice, and broke his leg just above the ankle in doing so, so the freshman baseball team will be without his services at third base today and for the rest of the season...
...former Yale coxswain, George Alexander Carver who found himself forced to cry "this is ridiculous" after five strokes. Then the shell slid under. Carver had twice unsuccessfully piloted the Elis against a Harvard crew but never before did he lose under such ignominious circumstances. The opposing Cambridge shell also almost bubbled under into the choppy Thames...
...grey Navy transport in Yokohama, a bugler sounded taps. On the pier, another bugler echoed him. Fifty pressed steel caskets containing the bodies of U.S. fighting men killed in Korea* were loaded on to the ship, which slid out to sea under grey skies...
...memorial to a recently deceased religious leader in the Mosque of the Shah. In the press of other business, Razmara had almost forgotten the ceremony and was hurrying in order not to be late. As he stepped briskly into the courtyard, a bearded young Moslem fanatic named Khalil Tahmassebi slid out of a crowd, got behind the Premier, opened fire. The first pistol bullet, which struck the back of Ali Razmara's head, was enough to cause instant death. Two other bullets hit him in the neck and chest. The fourth shot wounded a policeman who was trying...