Word: nose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heading for Atlanta on a sunny afternoon with 27 passengers and a crew of four. That radio transmission proved to be Flight 105's last. About 1,000 ft. above the airport, one wing suddenly dipped. Later some witnesses said they heard an explosion. The plane dropped its nose and screamed toward the ground, crashing about a mile and a half from the airport. There were no survivors...
...bowel. The former lifeguard, once cheerily vain about his lifelong "coat of tan," has given up his morning sunbaths and wears a broad-brimmed straw hat to protect his face. These are also doctors' orders, aimed at preventing a recurrence of the skin cancer that was scraped from his nose last month...
...belly of a high-flying, specially equipped F-15 fighter. Guided by ground stations tracking enemy satellites, the F-15 climbs several miles into the sky and fires the missile. The two-stage rocket then boosts the warhead out of the atmosphere and into space. The telescopes in the nose of the MHV pick up infrared radiation emanating from the enemy satellite and focus it on a heat-sensitive targeting device. The device is housed in a small refrigerator; just as light is easier to see from a darkened room, heat is easier to sense in the cold. The jets...
...alert was instituted Monday, after a student was diagnosed with Rubeola. Symptoms of measles--not to be confused with German Measles, or Rubella--include fever, a runny nose and irriated eyes, followed by a rash on the face and body...
...Anglo's nose and ears, to be sure, might be unable to tell the difference today. But that is likely to change. Already the growth of the U.S. Hispanic population is one of the most startling phenomena in American social history, and if anything it is likely to speed...