Word: crash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...medals awarded to singles figure skaters in the twelve Olympic Winter Games, eight have been won by Americans. From Dick Button to Dorothy Hamill, American skaters have not only dominated, they have defined the standards of the sport. The entire U.S. figure-skating team was killed in a plane crash in Belgium in 1961, yet the program was strong enough to produce a gold medalist, Peggy Fleming...
...opted for a World War II-style rearmament drive that will only accelerate inflation. He could just as easily have channeled the spasm of popular support that started with the taking of the American hostages in Tehran and has continued through the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan into a crash conservation program...
Mason is not one for crash diets. Although the days of demonstrating toughness by not eating have long since been replaced by a more sensible approach, he is still a frequent customer at the salad bars, only occasionally succumbing to an ice cream attack...
Project Place grew into this extended role from a drug-counselling center and crash pad in the late '60s. A group of seminarians, including some members of the Harvard Divinity School, opened up their apartment in 1967 for overnight crashing "as a response to all the young people flooding into the city," current Place director Phylis Saindons says. The stream of street people coming in upset the landlords, and the founders of Place were evicted, but the idea had already taken hold. Supported by federal grants, the seminarians relocated in the South End, a few blocks from the current location...
...table with four phone banks on it. The walls are filled with practical information--the phone numbers of hospitals, shelters, advocates for the poor, other counselling services, a chart of information on the synergistic effects of various combinations of drugs, a list of people who aren't allowed to crash there anymore because they were abusing the temporary service. There are voluminous files, and sign-up sheets for hotline and drop-in shifts, and a bulletin board of community announcements and happenings. In the back is a Place version of Peking's democracy wall, a forum for more overtly political...