Word: skies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with 43 people aboard, was 60 miles out of Boston's Logan Airport on its way to Nova Scotia and had just reached its cruising altitude of 25,000 ft. when, as Passenger Betty Martin recalled, "We heard what sounded like a bomb. You could see the sky. We were all praying...
...remark did nothing to warm up Rosalynn's rather chilly reception in the state. At her four stops, she may have felt as if she were confronting the same scenes she faced back in the days of Jimmy Who?small, undemonstrative, show crowds. Beneath a brilliant autumn sky, a tense-faced Rosalynn offered her usual blend of sugar and steel. "I'm very proud of Jimmy." she said in her soft drawl. "He has a solid record of achievement. He's proved his leadership." Pestered all day with questions about Kennedy, Rosalynn said repeatedly: "The last thing...
...then the sky began to fall in. Last weekend, Muzorewa hardened his stand by refusing to discuss "issues which are nonstarters, such as our security forces, our military or our police." He complained that "no country anywhere in the world can accept the dismantling of their security services and the forces that maintain the law." These statements, taped in London and broadcast back in Salisbury, seemed to renege on earlier promises to consider a role for Patriotic Front forces in the transition to independence...
...sounded like a bomb--you could see the sky," another passenger said...
Yale owned the Sprints. Under a cloudy, sullen sky, the Crimson eight never countered an explosive Yale start and couldn't sustain any threat in the 2000-meter contest. Senior Charlie Altekruse, the Harvard captain this year, says, "We knew even before the Sprints that they were a big, strong crew and they could take it out early. That's what they did. They were able to hold on in the middle of the race, and in such a short race, they could push...