Word: damns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what the NTSB's crash detectives eventually find to be the "probable cause" of Flight 191's crash. The accident left no survivors to interview, and the cockpit voice recorder disclosed only two sounds after the routine checklist readings: an unexplained thud and the single word "Damn!" shouted by the pilot or copilot, apparently just as the engine tore away from the wing...
Experts have strong and sharply differing opinions on which of these alternatives stands the best chance of succeeding and should be given the most attention. But the U.S. is not yet in a position where it can make the hard choice to ride with one and damn the others. Until the applications, costs and technologies of each alternative become better understood, the U.S. would be wise to examine all of them. That will require sharply increased Government funding, since most of the options are too long-term and high risk to gain financial backing in the open market...
...last October's dedication of the K-School library, Smith criticized Harvard for accepting a donation in the name of Charles W. Engelhard and called the proposed naming of the library after Engelhard a "travesty and a damn shame...
...territory by mistake. As many as 21 tank were put out of commission because troops failed to follow orders. In less than a month, there were 182 cases of plunder by soldiers and officers. All this, commented the Jerusalem Post, was evidence that a "don't-give-a-damn" sickness "has spread over our lives in Israel during the past decade...
...disillusioned students, revolution has replaced one tyranny with another. A junior at the University of Southern California, Said Djabbari, 21, wanted to go back but now has misgivings. "The previous government wielded an iron fist in a velvet glove," he says. "This new regime doesn't give a damn about the glove." Adds a social science student at the University of Kansas: "The Ayatullah sounds exactly like the Shah. Previously, if I opposed the government, I was opposing the Shah. Now they tell me I'm opposing...