Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the seats shudder and the wings flutter and the engines crescendo in what sounds like a last and mighty effort to lift off, what traveler has not wondered nervously whether the plane should be retired? America's aging fleet of passenger jets became a national concern last April when a 19-year-old Aloha Airlines 737 ripped apart in midair. Since then, cracks have been found in the fuselage of some of the other 429 Boeing 737-100s and 737-200s still flying in the U.S., giving rise to fears that regular inspections are not enough...
Orange flavor beef ($9.50) is different enough from the other dishes for contrast, but not enough of the dried tangerine peel comes through to lift it to the top of the class. It's a good serving and a good dish, but the best of these use a simpler sauce, with more red pepper to open special nasal passages that are then messaged by the citrus aroma...
FOXBORO--Doug Flutie threw four touchdown passes, including an 80-yard bomb to Irving Fryar on the first play from scrimmage, to lift the New England Patriots to a 30-7 victory over Chicago yesterday at Sullivan Stadium...
Only $4 billion more would do an awful lot to lift virtually all above the poverty level. Now instead of that, we're spending hundreds of billions of money that isn't going to the poor...
Intangibles: If Harvard is going to get a victory in the next four games, this is the time to do it. Home field, a weak opponent--the conditions seems right. Harvard needs a lift going into the final month of the season. A loss to Brown would confirm critics' opinions that this Crimson club is simply...