Word: slid
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...onto the layout sheet. Swiping down the dripping offset plates so they could be loaded onto the cylinders. Scrambling to scoop the fresh-newsprint-smelling pages as they swarmed off new, and then gathering them into bunches that you grasped loosely and tapped folded-edge down, so that they slid together cleanly in thick blocks and the newsprint rubbed its way into every swirl and crevice in the pads of your fingers and stayed there until you scoured it out with rough soap. And then walking home filthy as the sun came up, knowing you’d helped...
...Dynegy is located in downtown Houston, just a block away from Enron (which, by the way, has plenty of Harvard grads eager to trade in commodities). But the two companies regularly do business together, and their families play together. So while others watched like voyeurs as Enron's value slid, the 51-year-old Watson had a different thought: he would buy the troubled firm and restore confidence in the energy markets...
...really shaken up. He said there were 20 dead Northern Alliance guys, and the Taliban were taking control of the fort." As Dave stayed behind to try to rescue Spann, the two Red Cross workers climbed up to the fort's parapet, hoisted themselves over the wall and slid 60 ft. down the other side. Meanwhile, the firing had alerted a pair of TV crews. They too ran to the main building; there they found Dave and were pinned down in the ensuing fire fight...
Five different Crimson players netted goals as Harvard kept the game close well into the third period. With 12 minutes remaining in the game, Corriero pierced the UMD defense and slid a backhand past Bulldog goalie Patricia Sautter to bring the Crimson within...
...guidelines that you learn during Freshman Week, the guidelines repeated by proctors and tutors and guards: always ask to see ID. I was taken aback. I reached for my ID when she smiled. “I’m just kidding,” she said as she slid her card through the machine and popped open Leverett’s door...