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If Congress refuses, the company's management warns that Lockheed will skid into bankruptcy, upsetting a business empire that employs 75,000 people in 26 states.

From Time Magazine Archive

This unbalance makes it necessary that every passenger car built today requires . . . straight line stops ... or the car will skid out of control .

From Time Magazine Archive

Plus, her backhand slice will skid away from opponents on the turf: good luck lunging for it, Ms. Sharapova and Mss.

From Time Magazine Archive

I scarcely breathe while Carlton is away in his motor, for fear the wheels will skid and hurl him into endless depths down the mountain side.

From Letters of a Dakota Divorcee by Burr, Jane