Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government loses a top soldier in a helicopter crash...
Ramos also said that the four CIA operatives who were killed last week in a plane crash in EI Salvador had been bombing Morazan province...
...Force has announced the cause of the Aug. 29 crash: human error. As the plane's movable wings were swung forward for a low-altitude test, Benefield apparently forgot to switch on a mechanism that shifts fuel among various tanks. The B-lA's center of gravity thus stayed toward the tail, causing the bomber to rear up at a 70° angle, stall and tumble earthward...
This is the season that the Cubs, 39 years between pennant winners, 76 years removed from their most recent world title, played with people's hearts into October. The crash of 1969 was finally put behind. Before leading off in the first game with San Diego, Centerfielder Bobby Dernier consulted Shortstop Larry Bowa. "When do the butterflies go away?" he wondered. "After the first pitch," Bowa replied, so Dernier hit the second pitch over the leftfield wall. Speeding from first to third on an infield out, he eventually scored the opening run in Game 2 as well. Then...
...rejects him in favor of the wealthy bourgeoise, Madame Verdurin (Marie-Christine Barrault). In desperation, Swann searches Odette's room for elusive voices. He torments himself with details of her lesbian attachments. Foreboding music adds to the tension. Swann's frustrations build to such a pitch that a crash seems inevitable...