Word: slid
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...story is laced with warnings for its fast-rising rival. While GM is still the world's biggest automaker, its North American market share has slid for years despite costly incentive programs. Saddled with excess capacity and sluggish sales of all-new cars like the Pontiac G6, the company recently forecast a first-quarter loss of nearly $850 million. Highly profitable, full-size SUVs like the Chevy Tahoe risked looking like beached whales as record gas prices crimp sales and consumers shift to smaller models and hybrids made by rivals. (Until recently, GM dismissed passenger-car hybrids as a lousy...
...bounced off the turf and came down again a quarter-mile away, grazing one car on busy State Highway 114 and demolishing a second car, whose driver was decapitated. The plane skipped across a grassy field, ricocheted off a water tower, then burst into flames as it slid across the tarmac. "It was like a wall of napalm," said Airline Mechanic Jerry Maximoff. The tail section, with one of the plane's three engines and the last ten rows of seats, was the only recognizable part of the wreckage...
Meanwhile, Cincinnati's attendance had crash-dived from 2.6 million at the 1976 crest of the Red Machine to 1.2 million in 1983. For his turnstile appeal, certainly not his .259 batting average, Rose was called home last August. He singled and doubled in his first game, slid himself into a perfect mudball, and hit .365 the rest of the year. He could take his time with Cobb after that, and he has. Platooning at first base with another reclaimed icon, Tony Perez, 43, Rose sees to the right-handed pitchers. Though a switch hitter, he bats predominantly left-handed...
Even in his playing years Cobb assumed a mythic stature. The garrulous Casey Stengel summed up his contemporary in a lone sentence: "It was like he was superhuman." Others would say subhuman. On his most courteous afternoons, Cobb slid in, spikes high and sharpened to maim. He wrangled with teammates, two wives, five children and innumerable ticket holders. When a New York fan taunted him, Cobb climbed into the stands and stomped the offender. It was later pointed out that the stompee had been missing all of one hand and three fingers of the other. Cobb replied tenderly...
...trailing 1-0 in the bottom of the first, freshman Matt Vance was hit by a pitch to open the game, and—after Doyle threw to first multiple times—promptly proceeded to steal second. After Wilson walked, Walsh called for the double steal, and Vance slid into third under the throw from McGill, putting two runners in scoring position with the heart of the order...