Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flight 122 from San Francisco was approaching Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Dense fog shrouded the field, cutting the visibility down so much that even the control tower operators could see only inches beyond their windows. In earlier times, as late as 1980, the pilot would have circled in a fixed pattern along with other planes, perhaps for an hour or more, hoping for a break in the weather. Or headed for another city. Either choice would have been painful for nerve-racked passengers and costly for the airline. Yet the skipper of Flight 122 blandly announced...
...obvious. Americans still cannot make the long, skittering run to the goal, delicately guiding the ball, that distinguishes players from Europe and South America. Those quicksilver skills come only after a lifetime's experience in the game, and American players, until recently, have simply taken up soccer too late. Notes Caribous veteran Forward Brian Tinnion: "In England, we learn to walk, we learn to run, and then we learn to play soccer...
...realized that the very thing that gave me my life's inspiration was also the thing that was most difficult for me to do. Eventually, dancing was the thing that I loved and the thing that I resented." Never easy to work with, she now became impossible. She was late to rehearsals and then threw tantrums if other dancers tried to break before she had drilled herself to exhaustion...
...First Church of God in tiny (pop. 6,800) Benton, Ill., has a new patron saint of sorts: Elvis Presley. The fundamentalist church's affiliation with the late rock star began last February when the Rev. Lloyd Tomer was faced with a $1 million debt from the building of his new chapel. The 500 parishioners were praying daily for the Lord to show them some way to pay their debt when, according to Tomer, God answered in the person of one Robert Philpot, a Dallas oilman. In search of a promotion gimmick to introduce his new engine additive, called...
...Kevin and I played pretty good doubles," Walker said late last night after the team's return, "but we just didn't get it together as a team...