Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Catliff opened up the Harvard scoring at 30:49 of the first half on a blast from 15 yards with an assist from freshman Paul Nicholas and the half ended 1-0. The shots told the story, the Crimson taking 19: the Jumbos only three. Harvard consistently beat Tufts to balls and dribbled around Jumbo defenders. It was only the Crimson's bad luck that kept the game close, as Captain Leo Lanzillo and Catliff both hit the post in the closing minutes of the period...
Harvard stormed out in the second stanza and quickly increased its lead at 62:11 as forward Lane Kenworthy sidestepped a Jumbo back along the endline and chipped the ball into the goal-mouth where Nicholas neatly headed it into the corner of the goal. Only 2:16 later, Catliff tallied for the second time on a direct kick from the 20-yard line and Harvard had a comfortable 3-0 lead...
With just over seven minutes to play, Mark Busa brought his team within two. The Jumbo forward tallied on a blast from ten yards out after a scramble in front of the Harvard goal...
...hijacked on a domestic flight and forced to land in South Korea: over the summer a Chinese pilot flew his MIG to Seoul, touching off sirens and momentary panic, but the pilot was soon on his way to Taiwan: and in September the Soviet Union shot down a Korean jumbo passenger jet that strayed across Soviet territory on the last leg of its long journey from New York. The Korean government handled the first three incidents judiciously, including the success in achieving direct negotiations with the Chinese who still do not recognize them...
...known what ground control's commands were. But they must have been succinct. Within 4 sec., Pilot 805 says, "Roger," and zooms after the jetliner. He then reports that the jumbo is slowing down. Seven minutes earlier, Flight 007 had requested permission from Japanese controllers at Tokyo's Narita airport to climb from an altitude of 33,000 ft. to 35,000 ft., and a climb speed is slower than a cruise speed. However, seconds later, Pilot 805 reports that the airliner is at an altitude of 10,000 km (33,000 ft.), indicating that either...