Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...metal coasters are somewhat tame-too quiet and too smooth, and lacking the wooden coaster's capacity to engage the eye and the ear. Riding a wooden roller coaster is like barnstorming in a biplane; a trip in a metal coaster is like flying to Cleveland in a jumbo jet. Both will take you where you want to go-a little bit out of your mind with fear and fun-but only in a wooden coaster are you certain that you have flown. B.J. Phillips
...Jumbo jets screamed down through hairy April clouds, and Aqueduct looked gray and barren. The place is functional, not aesthetic, and now that off-track betting presides in New York City, crowds that once pressed to see horseflesh and jockeys' silks have shriveled. Half deserted in a spattering rain. Aqueduct was no classic backdrop for young triumph...
Then goalie Sukie MacGraw pulled another in a string of unbelievable saves, thwarting a Jumbo fast break that looked like a free shot at the net. Coming way out of the goal, MacGraw hit the stick of the lone attacker as she spun around to shoot and knocked out the ball...
...number two player on the Harvard gold team, having served in that capacity for two seasons. His full name is Edward Spence Fitzgibbons Jr., though he has acquired a long train of nicknames during the course of his career, the most endearing of which are "Four-Year-Old," "Jumbo," "Watty," and "Fitzleman." His playing partner on this occasion was a certain young slasher who sometimes writes about golf for the Harvard paper...
...grim reality of flying today is that the margins of error are slim indeed and that any mistake can create a holocaust. The skies are filled with jumbo jets carrying hundreds of passengers. Closing speeds can reach 1,000 m.p.h. or more, making it difficult for humans to react quickly enough in the event of error. The congestion at major airports is so great at peak hours ?late Friday afternoon is especially bad?that air controllers have to order incoming jets to stack up at altitude intervals of 1,000 ft. The landing is a carefully choreographed minuet...