Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SANDS OF THE KALAHARI. The makers of Zulu find lively if conventional excitement in the plight of five marooned men, led by Stuart Whitman, and one venturesome woman (Susannah York) who endure heat, hunger and sexual desire after a plane crash in the African desert...
Joseph M. Wilkinson Jr., 43, of Summit, N.J., enrolled in the Business School's Advanced Management Program, was one of four passengers who died in the crash of a Boston-Neward shuttle with a jetliner from San Francisco...
...forward velocity by one foot per second. Because there is no air friction to slow him down, the astronaut will have to use his forward-firing thrusters for exactly three seconds to stop his forward motion as he approaches his destination. If his timing is inaccurate, he may crash into his target or wind up bouncing back and forth like a celestial ping pong ball...
Just in time for the crash. In 1929 he lost some $15 million in the market, but for the rest of his life did very nicely as a "policy consultant" to a number of mammoth institutions (among them: Old Friend Bernard Baruch...
...Makes Two. Two days later, Breedlove's wife, Lee, showed that speed is a family affair. A 5-ft. 6-in., 112-lb. mother of five who had never driven anything faster than the family Mustang, Lee tucked her long black hair into her husband's blue crash helmet, strapped herself into Spirit's cockpit and roared off across the salt at 308.56 m.p.h. to break the ladies' record held by Betty Skelton. If anything, she took the experience more casually than Craig. "I wasn't a bit scared," she insisted. "You go so fast...