Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speed record, and he is determined to break it. As the astronauts comfortably watch a Sally Road feather dance from their banquet hall seats. Yeager goes too for too fast and loses control. But in an act more heroic than any earth orbit he survives a crash landing and wails away from the smoldering metal heap smiting...
...most spectacular crash, the Clark University's women's varsity eight hit the Eliot St. Bridges on a sharp curve and totaled the bow of a two week old $7,000 shell...
...focus of the General Assembly's attention shifted from Soviet responsibility for the airline crash to the question of American responsibility to the United Nations, the second-ranking U.S. delegate to the United Nations. Charles Lichtenstein, made matters worse by "strongly encouraging" U.N. member-states who feel unwelcome "to seriously consider removing themselves and this organization from the soil of the United States." Lichtenstein concluded icily. "We will put no impediment in your way and we will be at dockside bidding you a fond farewell as you set off into the sunset...
...analyst for a Boston management consulting firm when he's not rowing. Wood also organized the first indoor rowing championships in January, 1981. Held under the aegis of CRASH-B (Charles River Association of Sculling Has-Beens, an organization Greg Stone '75, a rowing partner of Wood's at Harvard, put together in 1978), about 50 rowers competed on rowing machines against the clock...
...Crash Landing...