Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find a place to come down. "We attempted to land three times in grainfields or along roads," Cha said. "But we could not, because of obstructing hills and high-tension wires." Finally, with fuel running out after 90 minutes of searching, Kim decided to set down on a frozen lake near the town of Kem and gamble that the ice would support his plane's 100-ton weight. The 707 slid to a stop just short of a hill at the lake's edge. Kim shouted: "We have survived!" and the passengers burst into applause. Two hours later...
...Russian pilots so trigger-happy? Western experts speculate that the Soviets might have been more than normally jittery about security in the Kola Peninsula area because of an embarrassing incident that occurred a few weeks earlier: a light plane flown by a daredevil Swedish pilot landed on a lake near Leningrad to pick up three would-be Soviet defectors; although the rendezvous failed, the pilot managed to fly away scot-free...
Next weekend Harvard journeys to Worcester for the Eastern Sprints on Quinsigamond Lake. Not surprisingly, the varsity will be seeded first with Yale--which edged Penn by eight-tenths of a second last weekend--probably ranked second...
...think I feel relatively confident," Rothstein said yesterday. "Quinsigamond is a weird lake--there can be a head wind in the middle where the top seeds are, while the rest is flat, calm water. In equal conditions we're going to be hard to beat. We're psyched, and we're still getting faster--I think...
With a budget of $1.1 million, the company has built a solid repertory of 41 works, but it still finds that educating an audience can be difficult. A Swan Lake fills Atlanta's 4,400-seat Fox Theater, but modern works at the 856-seat Alliance Theater play to half a house. Yet Fischl sees signs of growing sophistication: "We still get people who giggle at the tights, but the number is dropping, and people are accepting them as just another uniform...