Word: runway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Violent clashes on the runway...
Much of the same sort of self-destruction has happened in Illinois this fall A nip-an-tock gubernatorial campaign has become a runway for Republication incumbent James "Big Jim" Thompson, in the wake of a glaring gaffe by Democratic challenger Adlai E. Stevenson III. Addressing reporters after a debate with Thompson in September. Stevenson complained that the incumbent "is saying me tough guy. as if to simply I'm some kind of wimp." The local press latched on to the remark as indicative of Stevenson's aloofly intellectual bearing, and a series of "wimp jokes" ensued. ("What does...
...deadliest of the mishaps occurred as a chartered Spanish DC-10, fully laden with 380 tourists bound for New York, was racing down the runway of the airport near the seaside resort of Málaga. As the aircraft approached the necessary takeoff speed of more than 180 m.p.h., the plane began to vibrate severely. Pilot Juan Pérez apparently responded by slamming on the brakes, although at that point there is usually neither enough time nor enough room to bring a plane to a safe halt on the runway. Lighting panels dropped from the roof of the cabin...
Instants later, the jet smashed through a fence at the end of the runway. It crossed a busy highway, hit a truck and two cars, rammed into a shed and finally came to rest in a stubble field. Awash in jet fuel, the aircraft quickly caught fire. Said Irving Blatt, a professor at Rutgers University, who was sitting across from one of the stewardesses: "I saw the horror on her face as she looked at the back of the plane. When I turned, I saw the smoke and flames-at first outside and then almost immediately in the cabin...
Westover Air Force Base. The only place in the East north of Cape Canaveral with a runway capable of handling the space shuttle, this western Massachusetts facility has been doled out a parcel at a time since the Strategic Air Command left it in 1974. The base golf course was given to the neighboring town of Ludlow; an electric utility consortium purchased the vaults once used to store nuclear warheads. A private developer is currently converting onetime servicemen's residences into one, two-and three-bedroom units that will sell for $25,000 to $35,000. Now the base hospital...