Word: board
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they always have in Brumley Gap, the men and women sit separate. Outside, the evening cold has already crept in, and the hard outline of Virginia mountains has softened into darkness. Inside Hunter Holmes' one-room country store, three worn couches, a board placed on milk cases, and a few wooden chairs make a circle around a Buckeye 135 wood stove. The room is filled with people. The walls are lined with canned goods and staples like salt, sugar, cornmeal and motor oil. A blue denim jacket hangs from one shelf, and a few feet below it hangs...
...minute return flight to Salisbury. Six minutes after takeoff, the pilot of the first Viscount radioed a Mayday signal; then Flight RH-827, his plane, hit by at least one ground-to-air missile, plunged nose-first into a rocky ravine. The crash killed all 59 people on board. The second Viscount, with Defense Chief Lieut. General Peter Walls and his wife aboard, took off 15 minutes later. It immediately began to execute maneuvers designed to evade missiles and safely reached Salisbury...
...bunker at Ndjamena airport, where French troops were standing guard. At least four French citizens and a pilot for an American oil company had been killed in the fighting. Some 4,000 white residents, including many of the 230 Americans in Chad, hastened to the airport to board evacuation flights...
...enjoyed having her on my team as much as anyone I've ever coached," diving coach John Walker said unabashedly. "She's extremely humble, always considerate and just a lot of fun to be around. Put her on a board and she dives well, too," he adds as an afterthought...
When she arrived in Cambridge, Pam could perform a front two-and-one-half off the three-meter board, but could only do it in tuck (legs bent and tucked tightly against the body during the somersaults) position. To learn to do it in pike (legs straight throughout) would add .2 (the difference between 2.1 and 2.3) to the dive...