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...forced landing generally meant death. In 1936 she became the first person to fly solo from England to North America. Over Nova Scotia, a fuel line iced up, the engine died, caught, then ran out of fuel, and she nosed her plane at a picturesque angle into a bog. She climbed out unaided and beguiled photographers with a single scratch on her highly scenic forehead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Force Of Nature STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING: THE BIOGRAPHY OF BERYL MARKHAM | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

...safety fuse attached to an explosive device capable of annihilating our civilization." Gorbachev said he saw "no serious obstacles" to an INF agreement with the U.S. Even so, he complained, the West seemed to be asking for a "whole new package of additional conditions and demands" that threatened to bog down U.S.-Soviet INF negotiations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy Giving Better Than She Got | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...times, the war appears to be waged with hydraulics rather than firepower. The Iranians flood the low areas to bog down Iraqi tanks and heavy equipment. The Iraqis use earthmoving vehicles and hundreds of dump trucks to fill in the soggy earth. Despite sustained Iraqi artillery barrages, the Iranians have been aided by heavy rains, which have made it impossible for the Iraqi air force to home in on their positions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf Standoff in a Wasteland | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...proceeding began to bog down of its own weight almost as soon as it began. Giordano and his associate judge spent much of the entire first week just wading through the formalities of enrolling the lawyers and defendants. Half a day was lost when two minor defendants collapsed in their cages with epileptic seizures. Additional time was wasted when two of the six jurors suddenly found reasons to be excused; they had to be replaced by two of ten alternates. When one defense lawyer began a windy monologue, Judge Giordano impatiently cut him off. Said Giordano: "If we have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy Slicing Up the Beast | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...though the Crimson's play threatened to bog down in the mire for much of the first half, the team finally managed to break through at the 38-minute mark...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Crimson Blanks Wildcats, 2-0 | 9/25/1985 | See Source »

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