Word: slide
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brought back his prisoners in triumph. The Fernandez Quevedo came into Havana harbor early in the morning. Photographers and newsreel men were there on orders to take the prisoners pictures, broadcast them to the villages where the insurrectos still held out. There was no hint of the shark slide for the captured leaders. On the contrary a great show of courtesy was made-the duration of which would doubtless match the duration of the revolt. Havana regarded Machado's triumph sourly. There were no cheers, there were no crowds. General Menocal stepped ashore first, gaunt, his beard (which makes...
...better to slide than walk on your feet...
Without anyone's having done anything Cruiser A began to slide down the ways-nameless. It was time for HINDENBURG to seize that bottle of wine and hurl it with all his strength, hoping to hit-christen the now fast moving Cruiser...
...wide curve above a mill dam. Two miles above the dam, three crews last week waited for the start of the Carnegie Cup race. In the Yale boat, as the result of the latest of many shifts by Irascible Coach Ed Leader, Dave Manuel sat at the No. 6 slide in place of James Gamble Rogers Jr., the architect's son and varsity captain who had occupied it for two years. The Cornell boat, almost unchanged from the one which won the Poughkeepsie Regatta against the best crews in the land last year, was the favorite. In it were...
There are signs that the critical market, more variable than the stock exchange, is beginning to raise James Fenimore Cooper, first great U. S. novelist, from the slump into which an unsympathetic generation let him slide. This biography, the first full length one in 50 years, is one of the signs...