Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carnival's whole atmosphere comes charmingly to life at the very outset when, at dusk, first one trouper and then another straggles onstage. As the stage fills with proprietors and performers and roustabouts, as tents go up and booths slide into place and flags flap and sway, the bright lights come on, the lilting music soars, and the multicolored mongrel troupe parades. Then Marco the Magnificent appears, and the gal he forever two-times; then Paul, the lamed, embittered puppeteer, and the pal he forever snaps at. Soon, a wispy, skinny-limbed, wide-eyed Lili (Anna Maria Alberghetti) turns...
...American Airlines' 62,000 stockholders last week went a grim warning from President C. R. Smith: so sharp is the profit slide for the U.S. airlines that they will either "return to Government subsidy or else they will go bankrupt." In 1961's first quarter, American, second biggest U.S. carrier, was deep in the red. In 1960, despite record revenues of nearly $2 billion, the nation's twelve domestic carriers together showed a profit of only $1,000,000. Back in 1949, when airlines were only doing one-fourth of the business they do now, they earned...
...press who had studied at DU's graduate school said, "By Ivy league standards, Denver is a third-rate institution, especially weak in the humanities and liberal arts, and with practically no endowments." He did comment, however, that its underpaid Faculty resents favoritism toward athletes: "The athletes don't slide through this place. The Faculty is not anxious to do any favors or make any exceptions for campus heroes...
...fluffs by Green and Runnels, occurring on each side of a single by Bill Tuttle, led to two runs in the K.C. second. Rookie left-fielder Carl Yastrzemski throw out Leo Posada at the plato after Runnels let Andy Carey's grounder slide through his legs, but Ray Herbert, the eventual winning pitcher, drove in the two runs with a single to left...
...automatic elevator stops with a jolt. The doors slide open, but instead of the accustomed exit, the passenger faces only a blank wall. His fingers stab at buttons: nothing happens. Finally, he presses the alarm signal, and a starter's gruff voice inquires from below: "What's the matter?" The passenger explains that he wants to get off on the 25th floor. "There is no 25th floor in this building," comes the voice over the loudspeaker. The passenger explains that, nonsense, he has worked here for years. He gives his name. "Never heard of you," says the loudspeaker. "Easy...