Word: slided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stressed that there was no middle ground between the zero option and full deployment of the 572 new American missiles called for in the December 1979 decision. He concluded his testimony with a quotation from the British statesman Samuel Hoare, reflecting ruefully on Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's "slide into surrender" to Adolf Hitler at Munich in 1938. The comparison between Chamberlain in Munich and Nitze in Geneva was no less invidious for being implicit...
...which he could send them while it would appear as if he was murdering them. "After all, none would choose death over emigration," she said. This scene is beautifully acted by Giroux and McDonough, as The Woman and Shah Zaman, who athletically bounce all over the set and slide into eye-catching positions together...
...across the street from the paper, they struck up a wake, the last in a round of such affairs. They had twice given themselves a slide show of their faces at work, to a recording of Nat King Cole singing, "Pretend you're happy when you're blue." "It was the most relaxed place I ever worked," said a tearful obituary writer. "It was money," said a belligerent political reporter, getting no argument. "All Scripps-Howard thought about was money...
...three terms as manager of the Chicago Cubs led the team to three pennants ('32, '35, '45); in Scottsdale, Ariz. Jolly Cholly's antic disposition reached a high point in a dreary 1940s game when, as coach, he signaled a player to slide into third, then slid into the base himself from the opposite side...
...Thursdays. The regulars start arriving early, staking out their positions at the head of the line, which by noon stretches across the parking lot. When the door opens, they trot forward, gaining speed as they gallop through the warehouse, swerve around the cash register and slide past a World War II-vintage sign of a cutout policeman holding up a warning DO NOT RUN OR PUSH. One by one they pop out into the yard, their shirts and hats festooned with bits of masking tape made into instant claim markers. SOLD: JDGL. The rule, only occasionally broken, is that...