Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the driver's seat in the air-conditioned cabin, there is no tranquillity about a 19,000-lb., 150-h.p. John Deere 7700 combine, even run at half throttle. The engines hiss and suck. The cutting blades click like a madwoman's knitting needles. In this age, when transistors perform wondrous deeds with assistance from only a few volts of electricity, the combine, despite its air conditioner, turbo engine and two-way radio, is a functioning monument to 19th century mechanical ingenuity. It is a jumble of rubber belts propelling multisized wheels that turn gears, pull pulleys...
Americans are discovering that sad fact when they go abroad themselves, as they are doing this year in record numbers. The big attraction is the lowered air fares, but many tourists are not prepared for the rude shocks they receive when they change their dollars into foreign currencies. West Germany's seven U.S. consulate offices are flooded with young tourists who hopped aboard cheap flights with the expectation of living in Europe on, say, $10 a day. Ten dollars an hour is more like it, and they find themselves stranded. Philadelphians Eugene and Bonnie Baker planned to bicycle around England...
...conditions in the overcrowded, ill-equipped palace became intolerable. Hostages who could not wait to use any of the four toilets in the palace found relief in wastebaskets behind the speaker's lectern in the Chamber of Deputies. During the first night, 300 people escaped by pushing out an air conditioner and climbing out a window. The guerrillas later released all children and most of the women. That still left more hostages than even the guerrillas seemed to have bargained...
Palestinian liberation factions have been so busy lately assassinating one another that it was almost a relief?for them?to be at war with Israel again. Last week, in the aftermath of an Israeli air raid on Palestinian camps on the outskirts of Beirut, an elderly Palestinian woman expressed some consolation as she mourned the four dead and 14 wounded. "At least," she said, "these were Israeli bombs, and we are not afraid to die. When we are killed by Palestinians, it is shameful...
...retaliation for a terrorist assault on an El Al flight crew in London a day earlier. In that incident a stewardess was killed, and two other members of the crew and seven bystanders were wounded. The Israelis criticized the British for having failed to provide El Al air crews with proper security. The British do not permit Israeli security guards to carry firearms on their soil, but after the London attack they assigned armed guards to escort the airline's personnel...