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Word: crashing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toll was the highest in aviation history for a two-plane crash, exceeding the casualty list of 162 five years ago at Morioka, Japan, when a Japanese fighter with a student pilot at the controls plowed into an All Nippon Airways Boeing 727. Even so, in an era of constantly expanding aircraft capacity, the Yugoslav accident was not the worst crash on record. That doubtful honor still belongs to a Turkish Airlines DC-10 jumbo that crashed near Paris two years ago, killing all 345 people aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Look Up in Horror | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...pass the righteous threesome, climbing embankments and zooming along the shoulders. Once in front of their tormentors, some irate motorists immediately slowed to about 15 m.p.h. out of spite. "One semitrailer slammed on his brakes so fast he blew out a tire. I was lucky I didn't crash into him," recalled Lipski. "People got violent. We didn't expect them to try to kill us, but they did." When the procession reached Detroit it stretched half a mile or more and numbered some 600 cars. There was nothing illegal about what had happened. En route back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Vigilantes of Interstate 94 | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

Survive! is a quickie rip-off of a quickie ripoff. Exploiting the 1972 plane crash in the Andes in which 16 of the 45 Uruguayans aboard survived by eating the flesh of those who had died, a Mexican company brought out an instant tamale version of the saga. Allan Carr, 39, an epicene Hollywood talent manager and promoter, snapped up the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Gatsby of Benedict Canyon | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

...large part, language study is thriving at Dartmouth because of the ebullient personality and unique teaching method of John Rassias, professor of Romance languages and literature. A University of Bridgeport graduate, Rassias, 50, first developed his system when he went to Dartmouth in 1965 to teach a crash course for Peace Corps volunteers heading for French-speaking areas of West Africa. Staying on to teach Dartmouth undergraduates, Rassias used his crash method for both French and Greek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dynamiting Language | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

...died early, in a car crash. But she lived high and hard and with lots of laughs....Yes, Bessie Smith used to sing, with depth and experience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Why Lucille Ball? | 8/13/1976 | See Source »

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