Word: midair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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White Flyer is the first contestant. She escapes again at the mailbox, is netted in midair. "Fowl start," rules the judge...
...turned out they put them on two legs at a time, leaping high and accomplishing the maneuver in midair. The networks sold all available time to the underarm and antifreeze boys and predicted the biggest TV audience in history. Brezhnev said let Teng put that in his cowboy hat. Learned scholars and Richard Nixon pointed out how football was a game that symbolized the essence of the American character. The Americans practiced in a veritable frenzy of patriotism. Terry Bradshaw strengthened his passing hand by squeezing the milk out of coconut shells. "No more Mr. Nice Guy," vowed Mean...
Judge O'Malley was hearing divorce cases last April when she stepped down to get some papers. Unfortunately, the step did not extend all the way around the raised platform and she walked off into midair. She had to undergo surgery for a fractured elbow, remained in the hospital for two weeks, ran up $4,800 in medical bills and missed work for eight weeks...
...Diego collision particularly dramatized the haphazard nature of midair collisions. The evidence collected so far indicates that the veteran pilots in both planes appeared to have been following all proper safety procedures, watchful controllers on the ground had alerted both aircraft by radio of their dangerous proximity-and yet they collided. Nearly 100 investigators probed the scattered wreckage and began interviewing some 221 witnesses in an effort to determine just why. So far, this was what they were learning about the San Diego catastrophe...
...been a year of intangibles in sports and you can add this to the list. For Harvard, which seemed so deep on offense, lacks a scorer. Nelson and Diaz, for now, have lost that knack of finding the goal, of plucking a ball from midair and blasting it past a goalie...