Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Martin's adopted son Glenn was killed in a helicopter crash in Viet Nam, and the ambassador has an intense interest in the area. He strongly favored resisting the Communists in Viet Nam but long opposed the use of U.S. ground forces there. During his recent tour in Rome, he was reported to be spending much of his time writing position papers on Viet Nam's future after the U.S. withdrawal, but he characteristically turned aside questions on these projects by saying, "You really wouldn't want to ask about that...
...that he could play his saxophone as fast as Art Tatum played the piano, and began with a brief stratospheric flight that teased the ear. But he soon lost the key and then the beat. At that, the drummer's cymbal hurtled through the air, landing with a crash at his feet: in the customary jazz citation to a bad musician...
...leniency from the judge. "Due to my involvement in this case," he said, "I have lost everything in life that I value-my wife, my job, my reputation. Now it appears there will be four more innocent victims, my children." Hunt's wife was killed in an airplane crash while she was carrying some $10,000 in cash to Chicago, where Hunt said she had planned to invest it. He said that both he and his wife had lost their jobs because of the Watergate affair and had to find new sources of revenue...
...eight-day trip to the Canary Islands, with the emphasis on learning Spanish. Customers get a twelve-lesson crash language course before they go, seminars on arrival...
Detroit reeled when the law was passed, then threw its top engineers into a crash effort to meet the requirements. Given too short a lead time-to retool assembly lines normally takes about two years-the best antipollution device the engineers could come up with was the catalytic converter. Shaped like a standard muffler and attached to the exhaust system, the converter would completely burn hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide,* turning them into harmless water vapor and gas. Estimated cost to the consumer: at least...