Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anchorage). He set off on "Jet Route 501," a southwesterly course along the Aleutian Islands and one of five commonly traveled flight paths at the start of the 3,800-mile run to Seoul. A checkpoint Bethel, about 340 miles wes of Anchorage, he would switch to what pilots call "Red Route 20," the most northerly and direct of the internationally recognized courses to Tokyo and Seoul. It would take him off the Soviet Union's Kamchatka Peninsula, about 30 miles from the Kuril Islands, which are claimed and occupied by the Soviets, then over the main Japanese island...
...Johnny Carson said good night, Jetta Young reached over to switch off the television set. She heard her roommate's footsteps coming down the hall and, glancing up, saw her silhouetted in the doorway of the dark bedroom. "Don't be afraid," she told Young, in a strange, flat voice. "We have company...
...Jewish American princess but a full-fledged dowager queen. With her raucous voice and laugh, Taylor brings this character to exuberant life. When she says, after Burnett saves her from a suicide attempt, "I'm the Titanic. She's the lifeboat," it is funny and poignant. The switch here is that Taylor gets the jokes, while Burnett broods...
...flipped a switch and Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece was suddenly projected, in garish colors, on a ten-foot television screen. "But I thought the Mona Lisa was a painting," objected one astonished tourist. "Not any more," responded the guide. "We feel that if videotape had been around in Leonardo's time, he would have used it." The tour moved on. "On the next screen we have the fabulous Winged Victory...
...must be in Central America, let's go with a winner. We can switch our support to the guerrillas in El Salvador simply by calling them antifascist...