Word: slithering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five laps, with only the bell lap to go, Glenn was on the flying Negro's heels. Down the backstretch, Glenn put on his famous finishing sprint, tried to edge around Borican's shoulder. But Borican, wise in track ways, moved out. When Glenn tried to slither inside him, he moved toward the rail. He was still in front as the pair flashed over the finish line. When the time was announced the crowd went wild. It was 2:08.8, apparently a new world's record. Cunningham, too, was under the record...
...called unexpectedly and against all desire to witness one woman's agony as she underwent this "essential experience." I was speeding along a desolate stretch of road in southern California a few years ago when I saw the car ahead, the only other one in sight, slither to a haphazard stop beside the road. The driver was a woman, suddenly torn with pain. She had been driving alone into town when her time had come. Shaking with terror I jerked the cushioned seats from my car, made a bed for her in the shadow of her Ford, dumbly helped...
...their own way, with the blessing of the tutor thus released from some of his overwork. The committee's suggestion is therefore already, though somewhat tacitly, in effect. But the students in question are not thus given very much stimulus to education. They merely pass their courses, slither past the minimum requirements, and get a degree signifying little more than four years' watching innumerable and golden opportunities...
...mesmerized by the whirring tires, not to cheer for representatives of their own race did goggle-eyed addicts stare hour after hour, night & day at the pine-board saucer. It was, for most of them, the hope of being startled by the impact of wheels, the slither of tangled bodies on the track...
...lovers are standing in the rain outside a New York hotel. Taxis slither by in the wet, and the doorman eyes them coldly...