Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swine flu program has been shrouded in controversy from its inception. Last March, President Ford recommended a crash program to vaccinate "each and every American" against swine flu, after one soldier died in an isolated outbreak of the disease at Fort...
...tried to take a crash course in Restic's multi-flex offense," a still perplexed Mildren said in a post-game interview. "Let me tell you, it wasn't all that easy," an understatement of sorts when one listened to his fumbled commentary on the complicated system during the clash. Joe Restic chuckles when he recalls meeting Mildren. "We showed him a few films, but only really scratched the surface," Restic said...
...rear of the room. Enter three bizarrely attired "spacemen", who begin to make their way awkwardly to the front, their arms loaded down with plain, dirty earth rocks. Upon reaching the front of the hall they drop the rocks on the floor before the experts. There is a resounding crash. A shocked silence descends over the room as clouds of common earth dust rise into...
...first to arrive at the scene of the crash was Policeman Garo Tomaevic. "I saw bodies lying all around," he told reporters. "There was a baby still giving feeble signs of life near the [British] plane, but even if the ambulances had arrived before me, it would have been too late to save...
Reconstructing events, Yugoslav authorities were told that the DC-9 had been cleared shortly before the crash to climb to 35,000 ft. But the area around Zagreb-a key sky junction of routes to Turkey, Greece and Mediterranean resorts-is one of Europe's busiest air corridors, and the Yugoslav pilot was unaware that the British Trident was already flying at that altitude. Zagreb's air controllers may well be responsible for this fatal error. The preliminary opinion of Vjeceslav Jakovac, the Yugoslav judge heading the investigation, was that the controllers probably had incorrectly assessed the altitude...