Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million tons in 1976. They also routinely transport nuclear materials, so far without serious accident. To keep up with the demand, shippers have doubled the capacity of the average tank car, to 100 tons. Federal safety standards that took effect last September require new tankers to be equipped with crash shields to prevent punctures and thermal liners to reduce the chance of explosions. But shippers have until 1981 to remodel the 23,000 tank cars that are used to ship dangerous substances. Only about 20 now meet the new standards. Moreover, as an economy measure, railroads have increased the length...
...China, the crash training of legions of doctors, nurses and paramedics and the founding of rural health centers have nearly eradicated cholera, plague and other diseases that for centuries had periodically ravaged the population. Similar efforts are now under way in Mozambique. The Marxist Frelimo regime has set up free health clinics in many villages for combating such chronic problems as malnutrition, malaria and tuberculosis...
...pile into a car, go down to the highway somewhere and eat dinner. Then a lot of the guys who were 17 and 18 would go into town and try to sneak into bars. But I was usually content just to sit around and bullshit; and crash out around nine...
...mrdrunga pattering becomes a solid roar. Alongside the altar a devotee waves a large white-haired brush. The kartals crash as devotees bound to and fro, somehow avoiding a collision. They hop and leap, pony tails bobbing, mouths agape, chanting, "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare..." The energy ripples through the congregation. A man violently rocks from his waist up, glazed eyes bobbing above a limber neck. A swaying woman, dressed in a sarong, catches a red carnation. She closes her eyes, smells the flower, grins and flings it to someone else. A woman devotee bounces with...
...known some of the glory that Ali did-and for the rest of their lives they can take solace from the fact that they once held the most coveted title in boxing. Three of the ex-champs since Joe Louis are dead: Rocky Marciano was killed in a plane crash in 1969, Sonny Liston died of an overdose of drugs in 1970, and in 1975 Ezzard Charles succumbed to the lingering muscular disease that killed baseball's Lou Gehrig. Louis and the other five surviving champions have coped with life without the title in a variety of ways...