Word: slide
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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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...