Word: slid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minute later, Lanzillo slid a pass to Catliffe, breaking into the penalty box on the left. The transfer from the University of British Columbia took the ball past two defenders and hit a curling drive past Leahy...
...almost an hour, the gunmen held the Turks hostage in a room around which they had planted plastic explosives. Then, just as Portuguese security forces began cordoning off the area, a violent explosion blasted the windows out of the first-floor room. As a wounded Atasay slid down the residence staircase to safety through the billowing smoke, security policemen, accompanied by the distraught charge, dashed into the damaged building. On the ground floor, they found the fatally burned Cahide Mihçioĝlu; upstairs, a Portuguese policeman lay dead not far from the charred corpses of the four assailants...
...trailed from the tires as Pearson locked the brakes. Said Passenger Bryce Bell: "People were screaming, kids were crying." The plane finally came to a stop just 300 yds. short of a cluster of trailers filled with families. The only casualties: several passengers who were slightly injured as they slid down the plane's emergency escape chutes...
...mere 1,700 yds. from voyage's end in San Francisco Bay, felt what he called "a very deep feeling in the pit of my stomach." His 1,123-ft.-long, 75,700-ton nuclear-powered vessel had veered out of its 42-ft.-deep channel and slid to a stop in 29 ft. of water...
Everyone agreed that something had to be done. Otherwise, Social Security's main retirement fund would have slid into the red by July. But there are few more politically volatile issues than whether to restore the system to solvency by raising more revenues or by reducing benefits. After wrestling with the problem for a year, a bipartisan commission headed by Economist Alan Greenspan recommended a mixture that leans more heavily on new revenues than on benefit cuts. Passed overwhelmingly by Congress, the plan represents a victory for Claude Pepper and others who opposed shrinking the system. Its major provisions...