Word: specked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...approached California's Big Sur country, it was flying faster than a bullet-at ten times the speed of sound-and dropping like a rock, 20 times faster than a similar-size DC-9 jet on landing. Finally, it came out of the blue, a tiny, glistening white speck that wrote a special signature in the sky-intermittent puffs of vapor created by the purging of excess fuel...
...home remodeler in Chapel Hill, N.C., who is stuck with ten unsold houses because of towering mortgage rates: "I really don't see any end to 20% money. The bankers just keep telling me to hang on, but I'm just one little itty-bitty speck in this whole thing. I don't understand what's going...
...side, pressing his face against the icy windows. No one says a word--it is more important just to look and absorb and think. The gasping starts when we pass the ski jumps. At first they look so steep no one knows what they are. A little blue speck is descending on the taller jump. He flies. The bus is silent. Then applause...