Word: slid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...When Willard Met Babe Ruth By Donald Hall (Browndeer; $16) This book, like much of Hall's adult work, is set in Wilmot Flat, New Hampshire. Here, some time ago, a burly fellow named Babe Ruth, then a member of the Boston Red Sox, slid his roadster into a ditch. Fortunately for the ballplayer, a team of oxen belonging to young Willard's dad was on hand to pull his car out of trouble. Hall, a sportswriter whose day job is penning poetry, has Willard follow the Babe's career the way fans all over the country did back then...
...Zurich. Waiting on the tarmac, disguised as ground crew, were two FBI agents, members of the bureau's supersecretive counterintelligence squad. As Nicholson headed for the open door of his plane, they blocked his path and told him he was under arrest. At that moment, three more squad members slid out from among the pack of passengers, eased up on either side of him and led him away. After agent Michael Lonergan read him his rights, Nicholson spoke just one sentence: "I want to talk to a lawyer...
Fellow freshman Brett Chodorow opened the scoring at 13:48 in the first with a tap-in. Sophomore roommates Rob Millar and Craig MacDonald set up the goal for Chodrow; Millar won the puck in the corner and slid it across the crease to MacDonald who managed a nice backhand shot. Brown goalie Jeff Holowaty made the initial save, only to be beaten as Chodorow lifted the puck over the netminder to put the Crimson ahead...
With Prestifilippo watching Bradford, Noble positioned himself to finish to the right of the Harvard keeper who was guarding his left pipe. Bradford slid the puck to his center at the perfect moment, and neither Presifilippo nor Scorsune could adjust in time to stop Noble, who completed the textbook two-on-one with a one timer...
...suspect slid a note to the teller, "that it was a robbery, and he asked for money," said Cambridge Savings Bank spokesperson Alison A. Charello...