Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like their U.S. parent, the two companies founded by Zeckendorf have fallen on lean times. Last year Webb & Knapp (Canada) lost $1,264,000, in part because of a slide in Canadian real-estate prices, and Trizec lost $2,877,000 because costs of constructing its $100 million Place Ville Marie-Montreal's Rockefeller Center-overshot estimates by $25 million...
...feet above the jungle-delightfully furnished with flotsam, jetsam (down to the last doily), plus a fabulous view. And the Oakland, (Calif.) Children's Fairyland has built a Chinese Tree Teahouse offering tea and cookies aloft. Halfway up, an open-mouthed dragon invites the small fry to slide down his throat. "Kids will go nuts when they see it," says a prideful spokesman...
...with "cigarette." Without hesitation, the partner blurted: "Cancer." The audience roared with laughter and applause, and the master of ceremonies gulped, as if seeing all the leaders of the $8 billion-a-year U.S. tobacco industry frowning collectively at him. The health issue has caused the tobacco industry to slide from peaks that it may never reach again...
With their maneuverability, the Hueys can slide back and forth just a few feet over the sun-scorched rice fields, sorting out their targets like cowboys cutting steers from a herd. On one recent mission, the desperate Reds tried to lob hand grenades into the open side doors of the low-circling choppers. When two Hueys tried to box in and capture a fleeing Red guerrilla, he suddenly wheeled and headed straight for them, a hand grenade in each hand. A burst of gunfire from the choppers cut him down; both grenades exploded beneath his body. From the door...
...kids in Washington, well, there were plenty of pictures of the White House, the President's office, the bedrooms, and dining rooms with food-filled tables. "That's an artichoke delight," Rose observed of one slide. "In this room, we have cocktails," she said of another. At one point, without a slide, Rose offered a "word to teenagers." Said she: "I know many of you mothers are appalled by the drinking that's going on among teenagers. Please, please tell them that to be sophisticated, to show that you've been places...