Word: choppered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That bass-filled lake, separated by marshy, stream-laced, uninhabited and largely trackless terrain from Sanford, Fla., could not be reached by any land vehicle. The 25-mile trip was made by the chopper in 15 minutes. After landing at lakeside, we unloaded three inflatable rafts from the back of the H-H, pulled out the rods and bait, drew down a screened canopy to make an outside lounge, and were paddling on the lake within 30 minutes...
...votes. During the campaign, government workers were granted extra rent and medical allowances, some farm loans were canceled, and a stiff increase in land taxes was halved. The government refused to license private helicopters for political campaigns; meanwhile, Mrs. Gandhi's speech-making trips in her air force chopper were permitted "for security reasons...
After Carter's Inauguration, Jerry and Betty Ford, both private citizens for the first time in 28 years, boarded a Marine helicopter on the West Lawn of the Capitol. At Ford's request, the chopper circled low over the heart of Washington for a last look at the White House and Capitol, symbols of the power that he held for so long. Then the helicopter swooped toward Andrews Air Force Base, where a presidential jet waited to take the Fords on their long journey to California and retirement...
...Charlie, 40, has had many close calls in his ten years as a helicopter pilot in the Alaskan bush, but his luck ran out when a sudden gust of wind caught his chopper near Juneau, causing it to crash in flames. Nearly three-quarters of his body surface was charred, and doctors at Seattle's Harborview Hospital burn center had serious doubts that he would survive. Yet, after 30 long months of treatment, including ten operations just to reconstruct his burned hands, Charlie is back in Alaska piloting helicopters...
...right to veto contracts even if they are acceptable to assembly line people. Fraser's chief asset in running the union will be his great popularity; he is among the most admired men ever to serve the U.A.W. Rank-and-filers have never considered him a "pork-chopper," their term for a high-hat leader. They like his unpretentious ways-he often wears a turtleneck shirt-and candid talk. Sample: when "job enrichment," the idea of making workers' jobs more rewarding psychologically, was a fashionable subject in the early 1970s, Fraser remarked bluntly that the best...