Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Airplane jet engine...
Football games, no matter what the outcome, are something of a filling station for the Lear Jet engine of Princeton's alumni drive...
Center forward Sue St. Louis, the team's leading scorer on the season, wasted no time putting the booters out in front. Picking up a Kelly Gately pass 20 yards out, the junior faked past her defender, and kicked in one of her patented jet shots for the first tally...
...novelist in 1969 is, I agree, a bit like being in the passenger railway business in the age of the jumbo jet: our dilapidated rolling stock creaks over the weed-grown right-of-ways, carrying four winos, six Viet Nam draftees, three black welfare families, two nuns, and one incorrigible railway buff, ever less conveniently, between the crumbling Art Deco cathedrals where once paused the gleaming Twentieth Century Limited...
Though Jackson had intended a return visit to Beirut and a trip to Damascus, Sadat now suddenly sent him in a presidential jet bearing personal messages to the P.L.O. chief and to Syrian President Hafez Assad. Sadat's bizarre action left diplomatic observers puzzled, as Jackson was a newcomer to Middle East politics, and there were more appropriate, Arab candidates at hand. Jackson, nevertheless, left immediately for Beirut, where he briefed Arafat on Sadat's proposal: cessation of P.L.O. hostilities against Israel in the hope of winning Israeli recognition. Arafat immediately called a meeting of the P.L.O. Central...