Word: slid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strains that, for a fleeting moment, transmogrified Symphony Hall into St. Peter's Basilica. But once the basses and tenors in the older choir joined in, the younger choir boys lost their nerve. This led to technical difficulty between the sopranos and basses. Ideally, their voice parts should have slid over as seamlessly as silk over satin; instead, they dragged like sandpaper over cement...
Khristich, Boston's second leading scorer last season, gave the Bruins the lead when he slid a 5-foot wrist shot by Salo after taking a pass from behind the net from Jason Allison...
...Miller slid into the ball enough to launch itup by the far post where Stauffer was position fora header; she struck it solidly into the left halfof the net, evading Cauzillo. Her goal gaveHarvard a 1-0 lead, a narrow margin but one fromwhich Cornell would never recover...
...connected the eclipse to the mind's fragility: "A loosened circle of evening sky...was an abrupt black body out of nowhere; it was a flat disc; it was almost over the sun. That is when there were screams. At once this disc of sky slid over the sun like a lid. The sky snapped over the sun like a lens cover. The hatch in the brain slammed...
Heston sees his evolution as the result of years of reading. "I didn't change," he insists. "The Democratic Party slid to the left from right under me." He concedes one U-turn: in 1968, after the assassinations of King and Robert Kennedy, Heston endorsed Lyndon Johnson's 1968 gun-control law--a fact that his N.R.A. rivals blasted over the Internet in an effort to stave off his election. "I was young and foolish," Heston explains...