Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wreckage burned for more than an hour after the crash. The plane came to rest tilted at about a 45-degree angle, a charred wing tipped toward...
...aircraft accident is bad, but the fact that there are as many fatalities makes [this crash] a particularly terrible one," said Maj. Dennis Pierson at Strategic Air Command headquarters in Omaha...
...second crash at Dyess in less than three months. A B-1B bomber crashed there Nov. 8. The four-man crew safely bailed...
...fitting that during Inauguration week, the stock market should have recovered nearly to its level of Black Monday, the day of the 1987 crash. Fitting, because an Inauguration is more than just a transfer of power. It is a ritual re-enactment of the resilience, the suppleness of American life...
Using easy-to-follow formulas, the author demonstrates that the chance of falling victim to terrorists is less than 1 in 1.5 million (compared with, for example, 1 chance in 68,000 of choking to death or 1 in only 5,300 of dying in a car crash), that the number of possible five-card poker hands is 2,598,960 and that the size of a human cell is to that of a person as that of a person is to the size of Rhode Island. Paulos also notes that 367 people have to be gathered to ensure that...