Word: slid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...granted, but Chrysler still goes bankrupt, federal law requires the Treasury to have a first claim on its assets. Probably not enough money could be raised from selling off its plants and other assets to cover both federally guaranteed loans and Chrysler's burdensome debts. So if Chrysler slid into bankruptcy -a real possibility because its survival plan depends not only on federal guarantees but also on many optimistic projections-the Government would grab most or all the assets...
...Johnson and Ellen Hart also shined at Saturday's eclipse of UNH. Johnson tossed the shot 42 ft. 10 ins., more than eight feet farther than her closest competitor. Hart, who was injured playing for the Ivy champion soccer team earlier this year, slid by pace-setting Crimson cocaptain Kat Taylor and a UNH runner in the last lap to win the two-mile...
...sepulchral when Harvard converted a slashing call on P.C. goaltender Scott Fiske into a tie contest 1:19 into the second period. Picking up a perfect Mike Watson pass at the P.C. blue line, freshman sensation Greg Olson waited for Fiske to make the first move and then calmly slid in a backhander for his fourth goal of the season...
...book. It all began, according to the police, when Mullins stopped a teen-age driver in downtown Miami, relieved him of his valuables, stuffed him in the car trunk and headed for Jackson Memorial Hospital. There he grabbed a nurse and pushed her into the car, but the woman slid out the opposite door before he could drive off. By now police radios all over the city were crackling: Look out for a white Dodge Dart with an arm protruding from the side of the rusted trunk. Mullins ditched the Dodge, flagged down another motorist, pistol-whipped him and took...
Members of the cast each played at least two and as many as six roles which sometimes worked well, depending upon the actor. Jonathan E. Alsop slid versatilely from the pomposity of the Grand Duke to the kind-heartedness of the peasant Lavrenti. And Stephen Kent neatly changed gears from the obsequious Fat Prince to the macho Corporal to the doddering Old Man. However, Daniel Hershman was dismayingly flat, whether as the governor, monk, or Shauwa...