Word: slope
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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American's Flight 383 from New York was approaching Cincinnati from the Kentucky side of the Ohio River. In a heavy rain squall, the pilot momentarily lost sight of the ground as he turned to line up with the runway. A wingtip snagged a nearby slope, slamming the plane down with such force that wreckage was strewn over a 400-sq. yd. area. Though local residents pulled four trapped passengers to safety, 58 others died in the flames...
...Hill. Under the merciless white sun, five soldiers bearing full packs stagger up the sandy slope of a man-made pyramid in North Africa. If they falter they face further punishment. If they fall, they are doused with water and forced to continue until they collapse from heat, hate and exhaustion. The five, led by an insubordinate British officer (Sean Connery) and a black West Indian sneak thief (Ossie Davis), are prisoners in a British army stockade during World War II. The architect of their torture on the hill is a brutal sergeant major (Harry Andrews) who believes that...
...rainfall−on the lowlands and four feet of snow daily in parts of the Andes. Just before dawn one morning in Portillo, a fashionable resort 9,000 ft. up in the Andes, an avalanche hurled a reinforced concrete hut 60 yds. down the slope, killing five of 14 skiers asleep inside. In Santiago, the flood-swelled Mapocho River swept away thousands of slum dwellers' shacks, turned the city's broad avenues into raging streams. And the wind! In one schoolyard, a group of children stood paralyzed by fear as a furious blast of air lifted the roof...
...commission for Schine, an investigator for the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, were a factor in the acrimonious Army-McCarthy hearings of the early 1950s. Son David also created controversy in Schine Industries. He quarreled with managers at the Roney Plaza, lost money on several ventures, including an indoor ski slope that operated on a carpeted conveyor belt. He has not been company president since 1963, when his father took the job back himself...
...Michael Anderson's case, it is a cottage with a sun deck on Sea Island's five-mile stretch of white fine-grained beach whose gentle slope is ideal for her two small children, Sayle, 4, and Jody, 1. Such a beach would be hard to find in all of Europe. And more and more Americans are realizing that the U.S. has some natural advantages that can outmatch Europe's best. Europe, for example, has no stretch of shore that surpasses Cape Cod's Great Outer Beach with its soaring bluffs; no mountain lakes that are more breathtaking than those...