Word: crash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...persuading parents to tell their side of a horror they hardly begin to comprehend. In San Francisco, Reporter Chris Andersen found the problem frighteningly close to home when a good friend was able to summon "a talkative, nonrepentant heroin addict." For Chicago's Sam Iker, it became "a crash education -perhaps too much to take in one massive dose...
Internal Embarrassment. Only last week, nearly a month after the Swissair crash and the bombing of another jet operated by Austrian Airlines, mail and passenger service into Israel aboard 16 airlines returned to normal. For an embarrassing two-day period, even Israel's internal airline Arkia refused to handle mail for security reasons...
requiring GM to develop a car by 1974 that can crash into a wall at 60 m. p. h. with no injury to the occupants. The National Safety Bureau has already designed such a car that works...
...that one's arms have been blown off. Yet Boll's realism, touched with irony and occasional moments of lyricism, has preserved freshness of emotion. "I was alone in this town," one lost soldier recalls, "the sky hovering overhead like a soundless dirigible that was about to crash." Instead of settling to a level of cliche...
Adolfo Siles, who became President after Barrientos was killed in a helicopter crash, wanted to allow Arguedas to go into exile, but the military vetoed the idea. The generals' most bizarre but compelling argument was that Arguedas had possession of Guevara's severed hands. Che's hands had been preserved in formaldehyde and examined in La Paz by fingerprint experts. Nobody is sure what became of them after that. Even if they have not been destroyed, the hands could serve no further legal purpose-but they might have an enduring sentimental or superstitious value. The generals were...