Word: crash
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Sixteen hundred freshmen implies 1600 freshman stories. Some are funny; most are ordinary. Once in a rare while a freshman story will embody the absolute essence of mortal terror and existential nausea, a crash dive into the dark firmament of human life. In these stories the inscription above Dexter Gate reads not "Enter to grow in wisdom," but instead "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here...
...start of 1986 and a remarkable 1000 points above its level in August 1982, when the bull market started. Quantitatively, it was the largest falloff ever, but the 4.6% drop in share values on Thursday was nowhere near the chilling 12.8% plunge of the Great Crash...
...hoping against hope that a transponder had gone out or there was something wrong with the radar -- anything but a crash," recalled Grundmann. "He was looking anguished. We knew something was wrong...
After the U. S. arrests an alleged KGB agent, the Soviets threaten Correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with espionage charges. For Western reporters in Moscow, harassment is an occupational hazard. -- The crash of a small plane and a jetliner over...
...they deny their clients were negligent. The helicopter crash was unforeseeable, said Attorney James Neal, Landis' defense counsel. Neal, a former Watergate prosecutor, will try to fix the blame on Special Effects Technician James Camomile for detonating the explosion too close to the helicopter. Says Neal: "Mr. Camomile, holding the highest powder card issued by the state, violated the first principle of his profession. He failed to view where the helicopter was." Camomile was granted immunity when he testified before a grand jury...