Word: door
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mexico can never afford to forget that the U.S. exists. It can never stop thinking for a single moment that the U.S. is there, on the border, next door. This is an inevitable consequence of the tremendous asymmetry that exists between Mexico and the U.S. We have to think obsessively, constantly, recurrently about the U.S. The U.S. only thinks about us every now and then, and most of the time for the wrong reasons...
...about 10 p.m., just as I was pulling into the parking lot, I heard a car alarm go off, in another lot off to the side. I pulled into my designated spot, and the gentleman whose home faced the spot where I parked came to the door and very abruptly made the statement 'Do we have to put up with this kind of racket every night?' The only thing I could say was 'That wasn't my car. I don't have an auto alarm...
Despite open antagonism at the international peace conference, some delegates expressed hope for progress in upcoming closed-door sessions...
...conference now goes into closed-door committee sessions which may last several weeks before the foreign ministers return to Paris at the end of this month or early September. Three of four committees will focus on specific aspects of the complex peace process...
During the 1970s, DC-10s were involved in two major crashes in which the hydraulic lines were implicated. The world's worst single-plane accident occurred in 1974, when a Turkish Airlines DC-10 lost an improperly secured cargo door as the plane left Paris. The resulting pressure change buckled the cabin floor and broke the hydraulic tubes passing under it. All 346 occupants died. In a 1979 crash in Chicago, 279 were killed after an improperly installed wing engine on an American Airlines DC-10 tore away on takeoff, - ripping hydraulic lines and causing the pilot to lose control...