Word: fallen
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...three main engines. Reason: sensors were signaling overheating in the fuel pump. Two and a half minutes later, another engine seemed to overheat. "If the right engine had failed ... we would have been in the water," Lacefield said afterward, meaning that Challenger, with its crew of seven, would have fallen in a controlled glide. By firing its remaining two engines for an additional 86 sec., Challenger finally reached a safe orbit 197 miles above the earth, 45 miles below that planned...
...blackbox" recorders recovered from the seabed two weeks ago: "Explosion is one possibility. It may also be structural failure." But in Seattle, Jack Gamble, a spokesman for Boeing, the manufacturer of the 747 aircraft, declared that an explosion seemed a more likely explanation. His reasoning: if the plane had fallen apart slowly because of structural defects, there would probably be evidence of this on the tapes. But "both recorders go off line within one second," despite four separate power sources...
...story building; a charred tobacco pipe; a melted lump of coins; a mass of nails, of sake cups. A watch stopped at exactly 8:16 was found in the sands of the Motoyasu River. A horse is on display; its legs are missing. One case contains hair that had fallen in a clump on the ground. (Kawamoto's hair fell out after six weeks, but two months later it grew back again.) Another case contains black fingernails two or three inches in length that had grown on a hand where the skin was entirely burned off. The black nails...
...enthusiastic as TIME is about Spielberg's films. To me they are overproduced and always use the same tricks. He has fallen into a noncreative moneymaking routine that has nothing to do with the cinema. Patrick Chompre Toulouse, France...
Instead, after months of discussion by some of Harvard’s most notable faculty and administrators, the same criticisms continue to plague the review, which has fallen far behind Kirby’s schedule...