Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inclined for a time to moody fatalism, his nearly hyperthyroid present political pace and his family life leave little time for brooding. The Kennedys' $750,000 gray-shingled house and five acres in McLean, Va., overlook the Potomac River. Despite the back injury from his near-fatal 1964 air crash, he plays tennis frequently, at his own court or at Ethel's home at Hickory Hill, often coaching his two eldest children. He swims once or twice a week in the Senate gym, skis with the family on winter vacations and occasionally hazards a game of touch football...
...tale be true? The Soviets know the identites of the nine bodies found at the Trident crash site, but they will say only that the victims were in uniform, that one was a woman and that there were signs of an armed struggle in the aircraft, suggesting a hijack attempt. Experts tend to believe the fantastic story of Lin's flight, though they concede that the account of the assassination attempts might have been fabricated to make it less embarrassing for Mao to purge the man whom he had personally designated his "closest comrade in arms and successor." After...
...Senate subsequently passed a bill, 79 to 1, creating an ambitiously named Conquest of Cancer Agency. It would be administratively and financially independent of NIH, though nominally part of the agency. The theory behind both plans is that medicine knows enough about the disease to adopt a crash-program approach comparable to the Manhattan Project during World...
Rabbit's Penn Villas warren becomes a crash pad for Jill, a teen-age runaway from suburban Connecticut, and a skinny black radical named Skeeter, a curious combination of Flip Wilson, Rap Brown and early Malcolm X. As in Couples, it is again a fire that destroys, purges or does whatever fire is supposed to do in such charged circumstances. Rabbit's house is burned down by Penn Villas residents who are less concerned about their property values than about their children watching Jill and Skeeter get high and fornicate...
...dismissed with a laugh the rumor that Lin Piao had been killed in a plane crash while attempting to flee after an abortive coup. "It was intended to give a feeling of insecurity and instability to influence the U. N. vote," he said in an interview before the lecture...