Word: nosedives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The strip's pivotal character is the pencil-nosed naïf Michael J. Doonesbury, a founding member of the Walden Puddle Commune and an armchair liberal who spends much of his time, quite literally in an armchair, sampling the world's lunacy from television newscasts. He seems...
In recent newspaper ads, that was the provocative sales pitch for the Concorde, the supersonic transport developed by Britain and France at a cost of nearly $3 billion. Indeed, the sleek, needle-nosed aircraft can fly 1,400 m.p.h., twice the speed of sound. It cuts trans-atlantic air travel...
"My hypothesis, which I hate to state since I haven't tested it, is that people who work in those hard-nosed fields need a place where they can experience their subjective selves and let themselves go."
As she left Danville to drive back into San Francisco shortly after 11 a.m., Moore made a final desperate but still indirect effort to have her deadly mission averted. She headed west in her Toyota along Route 24 toward the Oakland-Bay Bridge and jammed down the accelerator, speeding at...
In a nation whose heroes have often been martyred failures, Eamon de Valera survived and succeeded. Through a defeated insurrection and a lost civil war, "Dev" struggled to free and unite the nation that had adopted him. When he died last week in Dublin, 92 and nearly blind, few of...