Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WEEKS before Christmas, a middle-aged man woke up in a bathtub when his heart shivered. The water had gone ice on him; the last cigarette in the house from before his arm went limp was floating around on top, shedding little brown slivers of tobacco that slid down their individual chutes to the porcelain tub bottom...
...What had gone wrong at O'Hare? The 120-ton DC-10 had arrived only a few hours before on a flight from Phoenix. In Chicago it was designated Flight 191 and it took on its capacity load of 258 passengers and a crew of 13. Traffic was backed up at the airport, which averages some two takeoffs and landings per minute. Captain Walter H. Lux awaited clearance and was about eight minutes behind schedule as he got tower approval to roll down Runway 32-R (heading 320°, roughly northwest...
Whatever the cause of the engine's breakaway, some investigators doubted eyewitness reports that all of the plane's three engines had gone silent. They theorized that the breakaway of the engine at a moment of maximum thrust, and with the plane fully loaded, had unbalanced the weight at a critical moment. Investigators also suspected that what some witnesses thought was fuel escaping from the wing might have been hydraulic fluid, which would have deprived Captain Lux of critical controls to maintain flight...
...narrow Tory margin suggested that Canadian voters were tired of Trudeau but uncertain about Clark's ability to handle the country's problems. The economy has gone slack; inflation is nearly 10%, and unemployment hovers...
...Another member, former Gary, Ind., Post-Tribune Columnist Don Ross, is now a public relations consultant in Tulsa. "I'm envious as hell of Russell's Pulitzer, which I think should have gone to a black," quips Ross...