Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although his disdain for professional politicians is boundless (he remarked recently to friends: "What after Algeria? Oh, after! We will be back to po-li-tics"), De Gaulle is not insensitive to those pressures that affect politicians in every age and every country. There has been a steady slide of the major French parties toward opposition, chiefly because of increasing discontent with De Gaulle's domestic austerity. Only the hope that he can solve the Algerian dilemma has protected him. In Algeria itself, he has been influenced by the growing evidence that the Moslems once thought riveted to France...
...incidentally, the median scores of successful applicants are somewhat lower than popular conjecture has placed them. Although the College does not give out the medians as such, the application of a slide rule to the percentages provided producers the following "educated guesses": SAT verbal--695, SAT math--660, English Achievement--725. Nevertheless, test scores weigh heavily enough that the Committee places them at the back of each applicant's folder--where the reader will not see them until she has already formed a partial picture of the candidate in question. Moreover, the Committee is currently trying to arrive...
...union as "King Kong." A hero until his death four years ago, he has since become something of an African god. He would clobber his challengers in the ring and later pulp them for good measure in the street outside. Braggart as well as warrior, he let his crown slide, ended up as a dance-hall bouncer who jealously murdered his mistress. Begging for capital punishment, he was given twelve years at hard labor and drowned himself by a prison...
...with 45 saves, many of them on shots made at point-blank range. Forstmann withstood perfectly a rather hectic minute and a half when overlapping penalties in the second period left his team two men short, but undid all his good work a few moments later with a leg-slide that kicked in a Crimson shot which otherwise would probably have missed the cage...
Getting ready at the top of a jump, Recknagel slides his plastic-coated skis back and forth to make sure they are not clogged, grasps the two supports at the opening of the starting pen and kicks against the back wall with his right ski. Then, tucked into a ball, he shoots down the slide and off into the freezing air, leaning forward over his skis until his nose seems about to touch their tip. With his arms thrust forward, he looks like a diver soaring endlessly through space. Back at the top of the jump, Recknagel's rivals...