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Word: slide (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guests want seclusion, they may swim through a gentle waterfall to a hidden grotto furnished with soft cushions and background music. Privacy is not complete, however; the grotto can be observed through a trap door on the main hall above. The way to a nightcap is a brisk slide down a brass firehouse pole leading to a bar, where a glass wall gives an underwater view of the pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Think Clean | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

Royer shot far less from the outside than he had in previous games and most of his 18 points came on slide tap-ins and short rebound jumpers. Kanuth tallied several layups off the same fake--dipping his shoulder and sneaking by the Yale guard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Topples Hoopsters, 100 - 75 | 2/25/1967 | See Source »

...Manhattan's top officers also noted that interest rates had slipped as much as one percentage point from their 1966 peaks. High-grade corporate bond yields were down from 5.56% to 5%, municipal bonds from 4.26% to 3.50% and 91-day Treasury bills from 5.74% to 4.40%. the slide continued last week. Several banks and finance companies cut the interest charged auto dealers to carry car inventories from 6½% to 6%. New York's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. reduced its rate on 90-day certificates of deposit from 5½% to a flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking: Prime Contest | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

...cash register and the jangle of the audience. And it was in just such places that Rawls learned how to grab attention by spitting out rapid-fire monologues about anything that came to mind. Then, when everybody sat up to ask "What did he say?", he would slyly slide into a song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: Soulin' & Sweet-Talkin' | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

...auto sales were down 20% , to 272,000 cars, against an average 4% for the Big Three. Gamely, the company found reassurance in the fact that the deficit was "substantially lower than anticipated." Said President Roy Abernethy: "We've reached the bottom, from the standpoint of the current slide." Possibly - although, despite high hopes for its jazzed-up '67 models, mid-November A.M.C. sales ran 13.5% below the same period last year. Apparently trimming his own expectations a bit, Chairman Evans declared that "there is absolutely no possibility that A.M.C. might not survive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: A Long Way to Turn | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

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