Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard men's crew team claimed the fourth annual CRASH-B sprints in Cambridge Sunday, outpulling such Ivy League powerhouses as Princeton, Yale and Dartmouth...
...route to the U.S. in 1960 as part of the entourage accompanying Nikita Khrushchev, Shevchenko hears the bumptious Premier mutter threats against the life of then U.N. Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold, who died mysteriously in a plane crash in the Congo a year later...
Khrushchev's personal threat against Hammarskjold returned to my memory in September 1961, when the Secretary-General died in a mysterious plane crash in the Congo. Friends working on African affairs once told me they had seen a top-secret KGB report indicating that the aircraft had been shot down by pro- Soviet Congolese forces penetrated and guided by operatives from the U.S.S.R...
...remote hideout for a smattering of the trendy rich and uncrowded preserve of ski connoisseurs, seems about to be discovered. The hills are alive with the sound of condo construction; resort developers are poised on their bulldozers. And a big part of the reason is that the hippies who crash-landed there in the '70s have changed. Says Durfee Day, who arrived in 1969: "Basically the whole town turned...
...cabin, George Lamson Jr., 17, who had gone to the Super Bowl with his father, 41, realized that "we were going up and down. And all of a sudden I saw the ground coming up, and the pilot said we were going to crash." The Electra skidded into an open field near an apartment complex, jumped a 20-ft.-wide irrigation ditch, careered into a sales lot for recreational vehicles along Interstate 395 and burst into a ball of fire...