Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yelled Bragg as Grubbs gunned his engines in a frantic effort to veer onto the grass and out of the path of the onrushing KLM. As the crew stared in horror, the nose of the KLM lifted sharply?but not high enough...
...still running. Bragg reached for the fire handles above his head. He grabbed only open sky. As the cockpit floor gave way, Captain Grubbs fell into the first-class compartment below, then somehow stumbled onto a wing and dropped to the ground. "Just to sink down in the green grass wet with rain was so heavenly," he said later. He might have stayed there?and died?but Purser Dorothy Kelly dragged him to safety...
...guerrillas hid in dense, 5-ft. jungle grass. At night, they bicycled and walked down narrow dirt paths flanking Bumba's roadblocks. Dozens of Katangese stole into Mutshatsha, hiding in the homes of sympathizers who are outraged by the army's looting. Others perched in trees near the town and dropped grenades into crowded troop trucks as they went...
...coalition: Independent Republican Michel Poniatowski, an outspoken crony of Giscard's who was Minister of the Interior; Centrist Jean Lecanuet, Minister of Planning; and Gaullist Olivier Guichard, Justice Minister. The three are expected to turn their attention to preparing next year's campaign at the grass-roots level. Although six portfolios changed hands, not altered were the key ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense and Finance (which Barre continues to hold...
...Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Bombeck...