Word: hole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...place was an immense hole, open to the cold night sky. A 10 ft.-by-40 ft. section of the right forward fuselage had simply blown away, and nine passengers who had been seated in three rows in the business-class section were swept out to their deaths...
...pretty quickly, I tell you. I had my two sons on board, one just in front of me and the other separated just a little away. He said, 'Well, it looks as though this is it, Dad.' " Added David Birrell, who was sitting about 10 ft. from the hole: "You're watching the clouds and the moon and the stars, and you're waiting...
...Hilo, on Hawaii Island, to Honolulu, on Oahu. A subsequent inspection of all 737s ordered by the Federal Aviation Administration turned up tiny stress cracks in nearly half the planes. In December an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 was forced to land in Charleston, W. Va., after a 14-in. hole blew open in the plane's body...
...been $1,000 off, I wouldn't have thought anything of it," he said. "It's like, if your house collapses, you just assume there's been an earthquake. But if you find a tiny termite hole, you think, 'Geez, I'd better investigate.' It's the little problems that are the most fascinating...
...Jerry Brown and of the Democratic Party in California. Or it could be the return of the flake." The greatest fear is that his election will undermine Democratic candidates by giving Republicans a chance to dredge up his Moonbeam past. Brown thinks otherwise. "I can become the media black hole that absorbs all the negative feedback," says he. "I can absorb a lot of flak that would otherwise go to our candidates." The most organized opposition to Brown came from women's groups concerned about abortion rights. A pro-choice Governor, the former Jesuit seminary student did an about-face...