Word: scenic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couple toured the scenic mountains of West Ireland on Friday, Oct. 16, they stopped at Blarney Castle, where Lynch kissed the legendary stone. "All I could think of was the market," he recalls, "as I swung backward, head down, into space, holding onto a steel bar for dear life." He hoped that the stone would give him luck rather than eloquence. But when he called the office that night, he learned that the Dow had plunged another 108.36 points. Worse, Magellan customers besieged Fidelity's 1,500 telephone operators with orders to redeem shares. Net withdrawals on Friday amounted...
Alums. It's difficult to imagine that they went to the same school that we go to now. You certainly wouldn't be able to tell from the way they run their lives that they got their start in scenic New Haven...
...solo from England to North America. Over Nova Scotia, a fuel line iced up, the engine died, caught, then ran out of fuel, and she nosed her plane at a picturesque angle into a bog. She climbed out unaided and beguiled photographers with a single scratch on her highly scenic forehead...
...jovial man whose company is enjoyed even by ideological foes, Bork amiably uses smiles and quips to soften his forcefully expressed views. After a Justice Department official commented that a certain decision would be made "over my dead body," Bork noted, "To some of us, that sounded like the scenic route." His disarming humor is likely to help him seem personally sympathetic and even comfortably moderate during the televised hearings. But the prolonged wait has taken its toll, and his irritation with the drum roll of criticism sometimes prompts him to grind his teeth nervously and show flashes of anger...
...sight-seeing bus tour through the Rocky Mountains west of Denver is one of the nation's summertime spectaculars. But the scenic trip was tragically cut short for 28 vacationers last week when a 6 1/2-ton boulder careered 710 ft. down a mountainside, smacking into the side of their...