Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Master Strategist. A master strategist of base running (he perfected the "fallaway" or "hook" slide), Cobb made up for a lack of natural speed with daring, guile and meanness. His favorite tricks included kicking the ball out of a fielder's hand or permitting a throw to hit him. "I believe the base paths belong to the base runner," Cobb said-and he did not hesitate to spike infielders who tried to block his way to the bag. After he slashed Philadelphia's famed Frank ("Home Run") Baker on the arm in 1909, Cobb received 13 threatening letters...
...slide converter, offered free by Icelandic Airlines, which changes American clothing sizes to European, pints to liters, Fahrenheit to centigrade, and reveals a hefty 90-60-90 as a svelte 36-24-36, making one man's meter another man's person...
...appendages as are planned for the 727. As the swift airliner slows for landing, its thin, swept-back wings will grow like opening umbrellas. On their leading edges small "Kreuger flaps" will tilt outward, making the wing effectively thicker and giving it extra lift. Simultaneously, a strange structure will slide out of the wing's trailing edge. Segmented flaps will move backward and downward, deflecting the air stream sharply and adding still more lift. Filling the angle between wing and fuselage, the huge flaps will turn the wing into an almost perfect triangle with 25% more area than...
...week's end there was a good chance that the negotiations would resume, and the U.S. thereby earn a face-saving chance to let once pro-Western Laos slide quietly into neutralism, and then, almost certainly, into the Communist orbit. But West Berlin was another story. The U.S. was firmly committed to the defense of the city-and committed also to keeping Western troops there until Berlin's independence could be firmly guaranteed...
Winthrop was third, Kirkland fourth, Leverett fifth, and Dunster sixth. Adams House broke a sliding seat just before the start and was unable to compete. During the race both Leverett and Winthrop had less serious trouble with slide breakdowns...