Word: loudnesses
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...sticking to a steady course, and at 6:46 p.m., the dire message came again from the cockpit: "Uncontrol." Replied Tokyo: "Do you want to communicate with Haneda?" The answer, now in a loud voice: "Yes, please!" The craft was tracked at 11,700 ft. and had slowed to 299 m.p.h. One minute later, Flight 123 asked for the heading into Haneda, adding, "Uncontrollable." Tokyo's reply: "Maintain magnetic 90 degrees. Can you control?" The by now familiar answer: "Uncontrollable." The craft was down to 9,850 ft. By 6:49 p.m., the 747 had dropped...
...dark when Ochiai mercifully fell asleep, still pinned in the wreckage. But before she did, she later told a hospital nurse, she heard children crying. The sounds were loud, but gradually grew softer. Then there was silence. Ochiai heard one other loud noise: that of a helicopter. She waved her hand, but nothing happened. Then she slept. She did not know how long...
...high-speed motorways, West Germany allows drivers to zip along as fast as they choose on more than 5,000 miles of autobahn. So when the Bonn government earlier this year suggested that a nationwide limit of 62 m.p.h. (100 k.p.h.) was a possibility, the outcry was long and loud. Now the danger appears to have passed. In the face of noisy protests, the Cabinet of Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week voted to keep the autobahn free and fast...
...main story line is sturdily intact, Dickens' cry of outrage at society's injustice is heard loud and clear, and some memorable characters are brought to glorious life. Rigg, as Lady Dedlock, is a model of aristocratic propriety starting to crack as her world threatens to unravel. Suzanne Burden as the heroine, Esther Summerson, is just as sweet, sensible and faintly dull as Dickens portrayed her. Den-holm Elliott, as Esther's kindly guardian John Jarndyce, invests a quiet role with remarkable compassion and grace...
...wished on anyone is a prayer for luck. As the Super Bowl quarterback was resting comfortably in a hospital last week, and his Hollywood actress was pre-empting war and peace on Washington's 11 o'clock news, the Redskins' players and management were ashamed to say out loud that it was a lucky break...