Word: landed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet citizens are thinking the unthinkable these days. During his years of exile and his reign over the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1924, Lenin formulated prescriptions for every aspect of the nation's political, economic and social conduct. Now even he, like so much else in this changing land, is being questioned...
...learn we had a landing-gear problem. People kind of looked around. The pilot announced there was a mechanical problem. We went out over the water and did what they call a G-force manuever, it was like a roller coaster. Then we tried to land hard to bounce it free. That didn't work...
...Tripoli crash may not have been caused by a mechanical malfunction. Flight 803 left Seoul and made trouble-free stops in Thailand and Saudi Arabia. Approaching Tripoli's airport in a dense morning fog, the pilot decided to land, even though only an hour earlier an arriving Soviet Aeroflot jet had prudently detoured to Malta. The KAL plane missed the runway by more than a mile, cartwheeled and slammed into two cars and two farmhouses...
...countrymen, Takako Doi is clearly different, even at first sight. At 5 ft. 6 in., she is tall for a Japanese woman. When she speaks, people hear a great deep rumble with just a hint of grit. In a land where unmarried women are considered somehow incomplete, Doi remains steadfastly single. But the leader of the Japan Socialist Party has used her difference to advantage. Says Shinobu Tabata, her mentor at Doshisha law school in Kyoto: "She was big, loud and pushy to start with. I knew from the first day she came into my office that she would make...
...toss it at some unsuspecting fish. But the disciplines involved in this seemingly simple act take years to master. Novices often quit in disgust or spend hours on the river, pleading to heaven for the strike of just one trout. Eventually, with practice, the casts begin to land right, without a splash, and then one day a trout rises to examine the offering -- and strikes...