Word: jumbo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minutes into the half. York came back for more, this time taking the relay from Stone in for a short poke that found the Jumbo...
...right side attack spoke up just four minutes later, when talented Mleczko took a York crossing pass, and whistled it past the Jumbo defense for a 3-0 bulge...
...damage was devastating. An All Nippon Airways jumbo jet flying 23,000 ft. above the volcano with 317 passengers aboard had to turn back to Chitose Airport, 50 miles away. Two of its cockpit windows had been cracked by volcanic shrapnel. Though no casualties were reported on the ground, everything within a two-mile radius of Usu was covered with more than a foot of debris, and even Asahikawa, a city 100 miles away, was dusted with a fine coating of ash. Rice, maize and potato crops in the area were destroyed. Tourist hotels shut down as residents...
...Case appeared and demanded that their son be "Deprogrammed" and his mind washed free of "all that silly mumbo jumbo" some weird religious group had pumped into it. "He's 37 years old and he's still not married," wailed Mrs. Case. "They've just made a zombie out of him, kneeling down all the time, speaking in a foreign tongue." The son turns out, of course, to be a Catholic priest...
...chuckle: "If Pan Am wants to dilute its earnings and go broke, why should I worry?" In fact, Pan Am seems likely to survive. After eight years of losses caused by a recession-induced downturn in international air travel at a time when it had spent heavily on new jumbo jets, the airline is now apparently on the mend and has reported its first profits for the month of May since...