Word: crashing
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...enraged parents hurled stones at the soldiers. As choppers touched down in wrecked mountain hamlets, survivors mobbed the crews and fought one another for blankets and biscuits. Some Pakistani officials reported that several times stranded earthquake victims clung to a chopper as it lifted off, nearly causing it to crash...
However, while haphazardly flipping through a copy of Rolling Stone a few weeks ago, a voice spoke to me. As two bright lights shone in my face, a higher power gave me my mission in strange tongues, which sounds, to an untrained ear, like the squealing wheels and crash...
...spoke during the forum. In her opening remarks, Kennedy paid tribute to her adventurous younger brother, noting that he often told her that “second children start revolutions.” Sen. Kennedy also became emotional as he discussed his nephew, who was killed in a plane crash in 1999, and the magazine’s mission. While the panelists represented different sections of the political spectrum, all lauded Kennedy’s revolutionary spirit and noted its effect on such current cultural-political outlets such John Stewart’s “The Daily Show...
...have hearts. The MGM Mirage, Harah’s Entertainment, Boyd Gaming, and the Las Vegas Sands have all granted funds to Harvard Medical School to help finance a new casino employee education program. Employees from Vegas casinos can come to Harvard for a two and a half-day crash course in gambling addiction. There, they learn from the nation’s experts, gaining the skills needed to identify and aid addicts among their customers and peers. “[The executives] are asking ‘Should we be doing more?’” said...
...food to desperate mobs of survivors who lunged into the chopper, fighting each other for the relief bundles. Some Pakistani officials say that several times, desperate survivors denied a place on a crowded chopper tried clinging to the runners of the bird as it lifted off, nearly causing a crash...