Word: crash
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Trinity, Uris (1 last week) 2-Sleeping Murder, Christie (2) 3-Storm Warning, Higgins (3) 4-Raise the Titanic!, Cussler (6) 5-Slapstick, Vonnegut (5) 6-The Crash of '79, Erdman (7) 7-Blue Skies, No Candy, Greene (4) 8-Dolores, Susann (8) 9-Touch Not the Cat, Stewart (9) 10-The Users, Haber...
...injured in the crash, and the broken panes were boarded up Friday night. Law said Friday "the snow fence will never be adequate with the wind conditions around that area of the building...
...should be. No hill. Trusting the compass, we dash off again, leap a fallen birch, catch a sapling in the face. Still no hill. We stop, listen. Nothing but our pounding hearts and labored panting. Retrace our steps and go back to the swamp? No, we'll crash blindly ahead on our bearing. Now the ground begins to rise: a hill. We sprint up it. Suddenly we see a tree and the red-and-white flag that signifies we have reached the checkpoint. We throw ourselves down on the ground giggling with relief. We were dead on target. Suddenly...
...Story of the Andes Survivors, Read inherited his Dostoyevskian themes as a gift. A remote plane crash, the compel ling temptation to cannibalism, all this extremity allowed him to make the most of his favorite question: How can a man manage to survive without being damned? Beside this bestselling documentary. Read's novels so far have seemed all too contrived. But there is courage along with foolhardiness here, seriousness as well as pretension. Over extended though he is, Read writes for the most part with grace and economy...
...Crash of '79, Erdman...