Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crash. As evidence, they point to a pathologist's report that found combustion residues in the lungs of more than 70 of the victims, indicating there was a fire in the plane before the final impact killed all the passengers. They cite eyewitness accounts from two truck drivers who saw a yellow glow under the belly of the crippled DC-8 as it plunged to earth. The four also charge that the safety board botched the crash investigation and ignored or suppressed crucial evidence...
...sense, Potter is no Marlow. His works -- novels as well as plays -- are lionized, though the author is unawed: "I think novels are rather easier to write than plays. Years ago I loved the theater -- until television came along, until I really saw it, saw what you could do with it. I love what television could be if they left it alone." Exemplarily, British TV has left Potter alone to create his atonal rhapsodies, whereas Marlow suffers the impotence of creative failure. And yet, Potter knows Marlow well; the author's biography crosses his character's life at crucial points...
...sudden, the first airplane was hit," said Sergio Tomassoni, 64, who was riding in the DC-7 trailing behind. "We saw the smoke and a big ball of fire." The aircraft, shorn of its right wing, smashed to the ground, presumably killing all five crew members. A second missile struck Tomassoni's plane, but it limped 250 miles to a safe landing in Morocco...
Primarily, those historians saw their mission as righting the historical record of Black America's past, by reexamining studies of slavery and Reconstruction to emphasize the point that Blacks had indeed made their own history...
...that it could not back out of the deal. The Commonwealth of Massachussetts pension fund, which had also originally committed funds to KKR's limited partnership, pulled out because it did not approve of the hostile takeover process or RJR's connections to South Africa. Harvard's administrators, however, saw nothing wrong with donating University resources to this scheme...