Word: roland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jerusalem Bureau Chief Roland Flamini, the events led to a feeling of double recall: in 1970 he had helped cover the hijacking of four jetliners by Palestinian guerrillas, and during 1980-81, he reported on the hostage crisis in Tehran. Covering the Israeli role last week, Flamini found that normally informative sources had grown tight-lipped overnight. Said he: "One of the most talkative political centers in the world had suddenly fallen silent." In this unaccustomed atmosphere, Jerusalem Reporter Robert Slater drew on an unusual source. At one point Slater heard a matter-of-fact Israel Radio report that Israel...
...graduate students in aeronautics and related fields, as well as engineers, designers and others employed in the aerospace industry." One was James Zongker from the Boeing Co. Wichita plant. His sleek "X-21Bmk-5" recently set the Guinness indoor record for distance (164 ft. 4 in.). Another pro was Roland Mayer, chief engineer for General Electric's military space programs, whose "Beercan Bomber," carved out of a Miller Lite can, was disqualified because of its materials but still much admired. Commercial Pilot Anthony Martin of Talkeetna, Alaska, sent along 28 pages of instructions describing how to coax barrel rolls, chandelles...
...Bible abhors it. Dr. Johnson inveighs against it. French Philosopher Roland Barthes considers it "murder by language." Even Ann Landers speaks out in opposition. But Patricia Meyer Spacks disagrees. Gossip, she believes, is good for you: "It may manifest malice, it may promulgate fiction in the guise of fact, but its participants do not value it for such reasons; they cherish, rather, the opportunity it affords for 'emotional speculation...
...They were amazing," coxswain Mary Roland said "They never let up and had no problem keeping the rating...
...balance, however, everyone seemed to feel that the expansion to twelve would be worth the sacrifices. As French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas put it, "This is the result of the political will of all the members to have Spain and Portugal join the Community...