Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monster & Friends. The Kennedy Playground is only the latest variant in a slow latter-day transformation of the old slide and swing. The slides are now apt to be shaped like oversized caterpillars, and space stations, poly-blocks and geodesic domes are standard equipment in better playgrounds across the U.S. "Creative play" is one of the country's newest fancies...
...Words. Only a few weeks ago, Southeast Asia evoked only bland smiles from most U.S. officials. Reason: President Johnson, for understandable political reasons, had decided to continue old policies, to let things slide-without a crash landing-until after November. Things slid, all right-almost to the bottom of the slide...
...magic 800 mark; in the sharpest daily decline since the assassination of President Kennedy, it dropped 6.77 points in one day. As the bears saw it, this was the start of the major shake-out they had been expecting all along: it was time to dig in for a slide to well below 800. But the market barely gave them a passing nod before it turned around and galloped up 18 points in only eight trading days. Last week it set a new record of 830.17 before settling back at week's end to 828.57-and there was hardly...
...buttons marked with letters of the alphabet. He pushed "J" to demonstrate, and after a brief flashing of lights and grinding of gears, a diagram in glowing green lines appeared on a screen set in the control panel. "The board is now projecting a slide of water and steam pipes in area J," said Mr. McFarlane, "which happens to be the Indoor Athletic Building. Now within this area, we can take a number of readings"--he referred here to a book that listed the possibilities and showed us that each site in area J had a number which also appeared...
...plate by center fielder Neville, prevented any scoring.Harvard's TOM STEPHENSON (25) lays down a squeeze bunt in the fifth inning against Navy as GEORGE NEVILLE heads for home. The throw from pitcher BRUCE TERWILLIGER is in time and the umpire signals the out, but Neville's hard slide Jars the ball loose from GENE PARCINSKI and the ump reverses the call...