Word: path
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sudden appearance of a Cessna 172 in the flight path of a Boeing 727 last week was the kind of disaster that commercial airline pilots dread, and all too many of them can describe near escapes in similar situations. Despite the statistical evidence that air travel is constantly becoming safer, America's airspace is getting more and more crowded. Last year there were 187,473 nonmilitary aircraft darkening the nation's skies, of which only 2,473, or 1.3%, were commercial airliners...
When we walked in, young and stoned, we were greeted by a row of moderately successful undergarment retailers and their fake fur bedecked wives. One, on the other side of 50 years old, pulled back to avoid our seemingly diseased path, tossing inaudible obscenities to our backs...
...Torrez went the route, and why should they? Why should one player dominate in a game where domination is the prize? This was a chance to see the teams; the stars, the bullpens, the stiffs, and this was a chance for the spotlight to find many in its path...
...barbed wire fence and headed out across some farmer's land, my flashlight the only light for miles and my breathing the only sound in the night. Except for the mooing which I heard after about a mile--soon followed by the sound of cows running across my path about 40 yards ahead...
...Heights in New York City during the repressive '50s. His was a working class Irish-Catholic neighborhood ("We were a National League neighborhood," he adds), and Carlin's archetypal second-generation Irish street-guy was roaming the trashy streets at night mad, contriving ways to defy whoever crossed his path. Unlike many of his friends, Carlin went to a "progressive Catholic school" and was spared such stimuli as corporal punishment and uniforms. He looks back on his on his "class clown" days and sees ironies that were never apparent to him at that...