Word: slidding
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...officer, about 15 feet from the nearest protester, idly drew his nightstick. A photographer rushed close to him, knelt and made ready to photograph the riot-ready policeman with nightstick drawn. The officer, noticing the man with the camera, quickly slid his baton back into his belt before the photographer could click the shutter open...
...police roared past her on dirt bikes, heading for a young man who had stepped off a path onto the grass. They slid the bikes in front of and behind the boy, and told him sternly, repeatedly, to get back on the gravel trail...
...fiercely intelligent album that mixes thrashing rock, subtle hip-hop grooves and imagistic lyrics--sold 178,000 copies in its first week in stores and debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard charts, right behind MTV darlings Eminem and Britney Spears. Sure, the very next week White Pony slid down to No. 15, but the point had been made: in an age of teen pop and frat-boy rap-rock, there's still room at the top of the charts for uncompromisingly smart music...
...were revised down again for April, the first consecutive drop since the summer of 1998 - investors' neuroses kicked in. Suddenly, the worry wasn't that Alan Greenspan would raise rates again at month's end. It was that he'd already gone too far. Tech selling slid the NASDAQ down on the news, and financials did the same to the Dow. Consumers, the heroes of the expansion and the villains of the overheat, are closing their wallets. Have they opened the door to a recession, thanks to the Fed's prodding...
...dugout to congratulate somebody who moved a runner from second to third with a 4-3 groundout. Sophomore catcher and All-Ivy First-Teamer Brian Lentz went 9-for-16 on the first weekend of league play this year, and Walsh told me he was happiest that Lentz slid hard into second to break up a double play when down nine runs in the ninth...