Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shake and pitch downward. In Row 11 of the economy section in front of the wings, Lori Michaelson was traveling with her husband and three children. "I could see the stewardesses looked kind of panicky," she recalled later. That was understandable. One of them had been knocked to the floor...
...gathering tension. Steve Willuweit, 46, seated in Row 16, went back to reading an Arthur C. Clarke science-fiction novel: "I didn't want to think about anything except getting up and walking off the plane." Lori Michaelson was instructed to place her year-old baby Sabrina on the floor near her seat...
...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...
...gestures of butoh dancers. Similarly, Shoko Maemoto creates souvenirs from a nightmare alley where fairy- tale fantasy meets a haunting eroticism. Meticulously executed, her work has a grisly elegance, as in Silent Explosion, 1988, a mannequin-less burlap hoopskirt from which a torrent of "blood" cascades, blazing, to the floor...
Harvard Hot Spots Location Temperature Harvard Square 99oF. Adams House E-Entry 92 Claverly Hall, fifth floor 114 Weld Hall, fifth floor 94 Widener Library stacks 94 Pusey Library 76 Lamont Library 76 Stone steps outside Lamont 112 President's house, 17 Quincy st. 84 Steamiest corner of the Harvard Union kitchen 110 Production shop at The Crimson...