Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just after John Glenn's Friendship 7 plunked safely into the sea, a wiry, inconspicuous-looking man in rimless glasses hustled out of the Mercury control blockhouse at Cape Canaveral to telephone St. Louis. Moments later, 22,000 workers at the McDonnell Aircraft plant laid down their slide rules and wrenches to hear the boss's long-distance words piped over the public-address system. Said James Smith McDonnell, 62: "This is Mac calling all the team!" Then, after exulting over the orbital shot and praising the "great teamwork" that accomplished it, he signed off: "My congratulations...
...slide file of 550 facial characteristics containing, among other things, 102 sets of eyes ranging from pop to squinty, 33 sets of lips from thin to sensuous, 52 chins from weak to jutting, and even 25 sets of wrinkles. Witnesses pick the individual features that most closely resemble their idea of the criminal's looks. From their selections a composite picture of all the features is then assembled...
...months ago. Government statisticians reported January dips in industrial production, personal income, retail sales and housing starts. A few pessimists began openly wondering whether the recovery had already run its course. Optimists answered that the worst thing wrong with January was the weather. Most economists blame January's slide on weeks of unrelieved snow in the Midwest, frost in the South, and torrential rains in the West. And for once, that rationale made sense even to those who believe that weather is often overrated as a business factor...
...house looks up to smile a welcome. Her jaw drops. In the doorway stands a domestic disaster. The torso suggests a pup tent full of Jell-0, the hair looks like something dumped out of a vacuum cleaner, the chin resembles the business end of an ax, the eyes slide around like eggs on a plate, the tiny mouth might almost be a third nostril. The legs-it somehow comes as a surprise that there are only two of them-look like snaggled paper clips jabbed into erasers, and when they walk the blubber above them wobbles with...
Measuring off the area of the slide on a map, Peru's Health Minister estimated that between 3,500 and 3,800 people had perished in history's fourth worst avalanche.* Only a few of the bodies will ever be recovered. The only way to get a more precise calculation of the death toll will be to take a new census of the area and subtract...