Word: slithers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conveyor belt that carries the mess into a big hopper. The trucks look pretty ungainly and make plenty of noise, but actually they are quite graceful. The secret is in the rear wheel steering that allows them to turn on a dime and makes each turn a kind of slither. Every night, from twelve to seven they slide around Cambridge whisking up tons of dirt that are dumped into piles and collected in the morning. During the day lesser cleaning is continued by a battery of men with brooms and carts called "section...
...night parking on one side of the street. Making one side so temptingly legal, the city might coerce the now defiant motorists to park single file in- stead of haphazardly blocking both sides. The Fire Department admits that with one side clear even the chubby hook-and-ladder could slither through the city...
...lonelier, and in the stillness our voices sounded loud and frightening. In this book I am again giving you my hands. I am leading you, not through cool pine woods, but up and up a narrow defile between bare and steep rocks from which in shadow things uncoil and slither away. It will be dark. Before you understand the meaning of the journey, I may not be there, my hands may have slipped from yours. It will not matter. For when you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that...
Final examinations start tomorrow and therefore the editors of Cambridge's Only Breakfast Daily must study zealously. In deference to the seasonal chore the CRIMSON goes on a staggered schedule and the CRIME will not slither under doors until Saturday morning...
...taken ship for an American teaching post. At first, John Divine relaxes. During a session of shuffleboard in a heavy sea, Divine's eye roves toward the scuppers and the slit of open space under the lifeboats. In that instant, he sees "a billowing of pink goods" slither over the side, and for "half an awful wink that pinkness seemed ... to have folds like legs and corners like tiny clutching hands...