Word: slid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student's bike slid on the slippery roads and he fell...
...gritty, wet snow fell on the day the town said goodbye to Karen Clarke and Leroy Brown Jr. The ice closed schools and slicked streets in Bridgeport, Conn., and residents slid helplessly and angrily through their daily tasks. So by the time 600 arrived for the funeral at Refuge Temple Church of God, on Main Street, it seemed as though God had forgotten this place, a small city with big-city problems. "Violence is let loose like a wild boar on our streets!" thundered the Rev. Courtney Williams, a phalanx of fellow ministers behind him hollering agreement, along with worshippers...
...Parthenon and we noble citizens look on as it flashes gory in the sun, our own little Exodus replete with earthquake, fire, flood and riot: tantalizingly apocalyptic. Among the expatriate Angelenos, there might be swaggering or display of battle wounds, an anecdote about the aunt whose Malibu home slid seaward. But the real L.A. is far away, and so is 1992, the year of the riots. Not old enough for an anniversary, the remains lie unexcavated in the rubble of more recent crises. So at Harvard in the fall of 1998, pictures of that familiar smoke-darkened sky are like...
...with the ball in search of a first down. Running may not have been such a bad decision--the quarterback seemed to be throwing to no one in particular all afternoon. But Linden didn't just run; he ran right into a Yale cornerback. He could have slid, could have avoided the defense, but that has never been his style. And when the ball popped out of his hands, only to be recovered by a gleeful Eli, The Game was lost for good...
...frame, the top line of sophomore Chris Bala, freshman Jared Cantanucci and captain Craig Adams flew all over the ice. Bala dipsy-doodled past a Bear defenseman for a breakaway in the first that failed. Later, he threaded a pass through the crease to Adams's waiting backhand. Stirling slid across the goal mouth, stacking the pads to deny Harvard's captain. Estes said. "They made big plays, creatingturnovers, getting to the quarterback, raisinghavoc, and they put the ball in the offense'shands. I thought we played a complete game today...