Word: super
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vast network of Solidarity Councils with the motto, "Lightning from the Sky." The purpose of the councils: to take care of such matters as supplying fuel, guarding against floods, and urging villagers to report on anyone suspected of being a Communist or a rebel. Furthermore, through a kind of super PX that just grew and grew in the past year, the army also runs a financial empire that even U Nu would find hard to dislodge. Among its activities: a bookshop, bank, import-export bureau, bus company, electrical-appliance outlets, a fuel-supply firm, a department store, a shipping line...
...Boring into Miami International Airport in broad daylight en route from New York International Airport to Bogota, Colombia, an Avianca Super Constellation had trouble with its No. 3 engine, went back to the line for repairs. Finally, in the air ten hours behind schedule, the Constellation touched down at fashionable Montego Bay, Jamaica at 2:35 a.m., skidded off the runway when its left landing gear collapsed, flipped over and burst into flames. Dead: 37, burned alive hanging upside down in their seat belts or struggling to get out. Safe: four crewmen who scrambled out of the pilots' compartment...
...When Alcoa pits a piece of its "New, Super-Strength Alcoa Wrap" against "ordinary wrap," it stacks the deck by seeing to it that the "ordinary wrap" is "deliberately torn and severely wrinkled," puts a dried-out ham in the ordinary wrap and a fresh...
MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 20--Willie Mays, sensational outfielder for the San Francisco Giants, tonight was termed the best all around player in baseball--a successor to Joe DiMaggio in that super-category...
Crimson teams have a traditional habit of checking the super stars of Eastern hockey for 59 minutes of amazing defensive play, then bringing on a season's worth of frustration during the extra minute. Such was the case against St. Lawrence, when the Crimson held all-East Terry Slater and Larry Langill to one goal, only to be bombed by four goals from the second line of Tom Lawlor, who scored a hat trick, Gordon Brown, and Paul Gaudet...