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Bragg felt his craft shudder and heard a sound that one survivor described as being like "someone ripping a large piece of tape off the ceiling." From just two feet back of the cockpit to the tail, the entire top of the fuselage was gone. Both wings collapsed on the tarmac, engines still running. Bragg reached for the fire handles above his head. He grabbed only open sky. As the cockpit floor gave way, Captain Grubbs fell into the first-class compartment below, then somehow stumbled onto a wing and dropped to the ground. "Just to sink down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: ...What's he doing? He'll kill us all!' | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...people, including a dance troupe called "Heartbeat of Africa." "I will definitely go to London," he said last week, adding that he felt certain that the Queen would be terribly disappointed if he stayed away. In response to this generous offer, Buckingham Palace could emit only a dignified shudder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Amin:The Wild Man of Africa | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

...there you sit, soaking in the last rays of heat which will emanate from the radiator until 1977, listening to the stolen HSA refrigerator shudder and rattle, and staring at the jungle of plants which were left for you to water. (Either you have more friends than you thought or those spider plants multiply faster than a bowl of guppies...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: You Thought You Had It Bad | 12/17/1976 | See Source »

...quite loud enough? Well, I have just the right Black and Blue buzz for you--it flew in the other day and squashed my roommates flat. The Rolling Stones' latest album. Hot Stuff is the finest example around of blues-finger disco--turn it up and watch the room shudder the way the highway does when its 100 in the shade. Hot Rocks had nothing on this--only burnt your feet like those Pacific s-m islanders' who walk on red hot terraces. Memory Motel replaces the no-tell in this chivalric age. Just listen to the electric-heart-blending...

Author: By Dianna R. Lange, | Title: 'Flash Gordon Was There In Silver Underwear' | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...everyone who read the Alice books and the Snark and found pure pleasure there must shudder to read the Jungian dissection of Carrol's motifs, the parsing of Carroll's imagery, the analysis of his prose style...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Lewis Carroll Observed | 12/8/1976 | See Source »

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