Word: bac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just finished a rousing speech in the coffee-growing town of Puriscal. about 20 miles from the capital of San José, when an aide handed him an urgent message. Figueres' old fighting spirit flared as he read that three gunmen from Nicaragua had hijacked a Nicaraguan BAC 1-11 with 40 passengers and six crew members aboard. The plane had just made an unscheduled landing at San José airport. Would the President authorize refueling it for the flight on to Havana, or providing a new plane for the trip? "To hell with this!" exclaimed Don Pepe...
From the moment he stepped out of his Air Malawi BAC-111 jetliner to receive a 21-gun salute and a red-carpet greeting from South Africa's State President Jim Fouche, the emotional Banda seemed delighted to be there. Hustling over to a crowd of waiting Africans, he waved his fly whisk, made from a wildebeest's tail, and shouted in Fanagalo, the language of the South African gold mines, "Kamuzu is glad to be here." Later Banda led South African officials on a tour of the mine offices where he had worked as a youth...
...pleased to consider themselves "priests of the intellect," as one put it; they are often so remote that they refuse to see students who want to discuss their work. Almost half of lycée entrants flunk out or are discouraged into dropping out before ever reaching the bac exams; one-third of those taking the tests last week are expected to fail...
Building on the hypothesis that bac-teria use chemotaxis to locate food, Fogel, Chet and Mitchell investigated the effects of chemical pollutants on bacterial sensing mechanisms. They found that many of the bacteria tested could not detect food when small, non-lethal amounts of organic chemicals such as alcohol's were added to the seawater...
Over the Sibuyan Sea in the central Philippines, two long-haired young Filipinos last week barged into the cockpit of a BAC-One-Eleven jet bound from Manila to the southern island of Mindanao. "This is a hijack," said one, pressing a pistol against the pilot's neck. "Head north-to Peking." A second youth nervously fingered the aircraft's fire ax, while three others guarded the passengers. Told that the Philippine Air Lines plane could not make it to Peking, 1,500 miles away, the hijackers agreed to a refueling stop at Hong Kong, where the plane...