Word: aloft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week. The victory over wind, sleet, 100-ft. waves and British muddle came on the 160th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, and it sent Energy Secretary Anthony Wedgwood Benn into a fit of hyperbole as he opened the first valve on the Isle of Grain. Benn held aloft a souvenir bottle of the crude and announced to an assembly that included U.S. Ambassador Elliot Richardson: "This is much more significant and historic than the moon shot, which only brought back soil and rock...
...convicted of a murder he said never happened. Then, last month, came the movie Breakout, in which Charles Bronson whisks framed Murderer Robert Duvall out of a Mexican prison in, yes, a helicopter. Finally, last week, a man hired a helicopter at Mettetal Airport in Plymouth, Mich., and, once aloft, pulled a knife and ordered Pilot Richard Jackson to fly to the State Prison of Southern Michigan in Jackson. The pilot set down within the walls and took aboard Inmate Dale Otto Remling, 46, who was serving six to ten years for larceny. The pickup took five seconds, only half...
Jauntily holding the 350-page document aloft for reporters to see, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller last week prepared to deliver to the White House his commission's report on the alleged improprieties and machinations of the CIA. "We've done a good job, I think," said Rockefeller. "There's been no stone unturned, there's no punches pulled." Then the Vice President gave a brief synopsis of the report on the agency, which his eight-man panel had been preparing for the past five months: "There are things that have been done that are in contradiction...
...price rises continued to keep profits aloft in the first quarter of 1975, even after demand shriveled for flat-rolled steel used in cars and a sudden drop in users' capital-spending plans caused a fall in orders for steel used in construction. But remarkable as the first-quarter profit gains were, they fell off substantially from late 1974. In the third quarter last year, steel profits rose an average 172% from the equivalent quarter of 1973, and in the fourth quarter 91%. The average gain for this year's first quarter...
...happened, two Air Force photographers who were aboard took pictures of the damaged tail area while the plane was still aloft. But when South Vietnamese soldiers looted the crash site, they destroyed the film as well as the flight-data recorder. The looters also stripped an injured flight engineer, pinned in the wreckage, of his pistol, watch, wallet, shoes and socks...