Word: tailed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Canada refused to comment on what caused the tail to fall off. The airline said it offered passengers seats on later planes...
...soon as the tail cone ripped away, the airliner lost cabin pressure rapidly. Oxygen masks popped down from overhead racks immediately, and the pilot nosed the craft down to an altitude where decompression would not injure the passengers...
...leaders at the eight-day conference readily acknowledged that Mrs. Thatcher had made an important contribution toward solving an explosive issue that threatened to wreck the conference-namely, the problem of how to bring genuine majority rule to Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. After arriving in Lusaka "with two horns and a tail," as she put it, Britain's new Prime Minister had suddenly become a symbol of hope...
...cattle and pig farm. But the quiet palled, and, after testing the ring and his reflexes in a benefit performance last year, El Cordobés decided to retire from retirement. Last week's fight at Benidorm, in which he was awarded five ears and a tail, will be followed by 60 more in Spain and Latin America; he may earn $4 million but, more important, he can relive those moments of truth...
Some enthusiasts opt for style over speed, combining tail dips and pirouettes in a kind of elegant water ballet. In Hawaii, super wind-surfers specialize in "wave jumps": they sail directly into a wave, up the crest and over, becoming airborne for a few seconds as they shoot through the foam into calm water beyond. Indeed, wind-surfers can do anything surfers or sailors can on their vessels, almost. Says Craig Roberton of Clearwater: "This sport has only one flaw. There's no way to hold onto a beer on a sailboat like that...