Word: haring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This is the Year of the Dragon," an elderly Chinese bystander commented. The dragon symbolizes good health, and is one of the twelve animals used in the Chinese calendar to designate years. Last year was the Year of the Hare, and he first animal in the cycle...
...skycaps at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, the world's busiest, got strict instructions not to check baggage through unless a passenger could produce a ticket...
...Nobody feels secure," explained John Carr, acting manager at O'Hare. "We're skittish about everything. We are doing everything we can with our experience and background -but just what are you looking...
...just in time to avert a collision with a Trans World Airlines plane over Michigan. A fortnight ago, another pair of planes, one a TWA, the other a United Air Lines jet, passed within 300 ft. of each other as both were heading for Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. There were other close calls in the Chicago area that day. Shortly before the two big jets avoided disaster, a twin-engine Cessna en route to a small field north of O'Hare crossed in front of a North Central Airways turboprop. Later, a privately owned...
...same airspace at the same moment. The error was theoretically impossible, but something like it happened again last week. Two Boeing 727s-a TWA craft with 77 passengers and a United Air Lines jet with 60 passengers -were in the same flight lane approaching Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. The TWA captain spotted the danger and banked to the left, passing within 300 feet of the United plane. Again an alert individual had averted a catastrophe that a supposedly fail-safe system was intended to prevent...