Word: oed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jane O'Reilly
Even before the last bodies had been found, the detective story began. Federal investigators started poking through the smoldering wreckage of the DC-10 in the flame-seared field near Chicago's O'Hare Airport, collecting pieces of metal that colleagues later examined under electron microscopes. Their findings last week were enough to chill the most seasoned air traveler: the key elements that destroyed American Airlines Flight 191 and killed 274 people appeared to be a bolt 3 in. long and ⅜ in. in diameter, and a cracked metal plate. Both were parts of the pylon assembly under...
...impatience that can blister into arrogance. In his clockwork Cabinet meetings, he thinks nothing of cutting off the first digression with a knifing "That's not pertinent!" He once complained about Ludwig Erhard, who succeeded Adenauer as Chancellor, that "talking with him is like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall...
...senior British diplomat who admires Schmidt complains that the new West German leadership is still too narrowly focused on national interest instead of international cooperation. Says he: "We haven't yet seen the wider vision. It is still 'Germany First.' And the German stand ?like Scarlett O'Hara's vow that 'I'm never going to be hungry again...
October also marked the dedication of the newly-built John F. Kennedy School of Government. President Carter and Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.), although invited, missed the ceremony...