Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between the French President and Kiesinger in early January. The Christian Democrats' Gerhard Schroder, who served as Foreign Minister under Erhard, arrived at the Defense Ministry just after the Luftwaffe's new commander, Lieut. General Johann Steinhoff, grounded the service's 769 Starfighters following the 65th crash of the U.S.-designed fighter-bomber. He and Steinhoff agreed that the planes should not fly again until they are outfitted with improved ejection seats...
...Palestinian refugees to overthrow their monarch. To get his country ready for any explosion, Hussein put his security forces on a round-the-clock alert; he began sending extra arms to police posts on the border, started drafting all men between 18 and 40 for 90 days of crash training and strung his tough, trusted Arab Legionnaires all along the frontier. His forces soon arrested four Syrian terrorists who, according to the Jordanian army, were sent across the border to bomb government buildings, bridges and military telephone lines. It was the first such Arab terrorism reported against Jordan itself...
...join your old chums." In October the invitations went off, and suddenly Capote was swamped with pleading messages from those whom he had left out. "I feel like I fell into a whole mess of piranha fish," he moaned to Women's Wear Daily. Supposing someone tried to crash? He would have bouncers to throw them...
...kind of oil, except castor oil, plus half a dozen varieties of flour, six kinds of margarine, and sticks and sticks of butter. Then, for eight straight days, Julia did nothing but bake brioches, dozens at a time. When the rest of the house were awakened by a loud crash in the kitchen at 5 a.m., they knew it meant that Julia had jettisoned yet another batch. "You can't have had much of a vacation," said her brother-in-law. "Nonsense," she replied, "I've had a glorious time." And besides, she had found the perfect combination...
...Motor Manufacturers recoils at the idea of a uniform PRNDL sequence of automatic shift positions, points out that some makes have fancy variations, including "two D positions" and even "the sequence RN1234D." Germany's Porsche objects to having to prove the safety of its gas tanks in actual crash tests, "because with a production of only 50 cars a day, one car represents a tremendous value." Volkswagen fears that the famous beetle will be in for an untoward face lifting if its bumpers must be raised to a standard height to match the big cars from Detroit; the company...