Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back toward land. Moments later, with 17 Marines aboard, the aircraft plunged into the Pacific. The second helicopter apparently spotted men in the water and dropped dye markers and a raft, but after a 24-hour search by planes and ships, no survivors were found. The cause of the crash remains unknown...
...Passing stars sometimes dislodge snowballs from the cloud, which can sprout the classic luminous tails of gas and dust as they plunge toward the sun. Most comets whip around the sun and head back out of the solar system. Some, like Halley's, periodically return. But others crash into the sun or the planets, a fact confirmed in 1979 when a Defense Department satellite photographed a comet plunging to a fiery death...
...gold chains. He gave a birthday bash for his wife that featured a stark-naked dancer on the bandstand and a tiered cake with a miniature space shuttle and a model car smashed into the icing on top. This whimsy apparently was reference to his wife's nickname, "Crash," and his, "Smash." He sent bowls of fruit to people in the marina with his card, which has JOHN "SMASH" THEURER printed on it. By that time, a lot of people were so upset they threw the fruit overboard. One morning, very early, he appeared on a spit of land across...
...week that his agency is taking as long as twelve weeks to send out refunds, two weeks longer than last year. The sluggishness of the IRS, said Egger, is the result of glitches in setting up a new $103 million Sperry Univac 1100/84 computer system. The IRS launched a crash program to install the computers in November to replace its creaky 1960s-era equipment...
Indeed, the sounds of bombing by Soviet MiGs and the crash of artillery have been growing louder and more frequent in recent weeks. Last year there were 81 incidents in which the Pakistanis claimed their territory was bombed or strafed by Soviet aircraft. So far this year 56 such violations have been registered, and in the past month there have been at least 60 artillery attacks as well. Soviet and Afghan government forces have also mounted several ground raids along the frontier, including one last month that involved several hundred Soviet tanks as well as fighter-bombers and helicopters...