Word: tailspinning
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...Alfred Peters, 51, jumped from a Cessna aircraft and accelerated to about 120 miles per hour when he struck the rear of Klein's single-engine Piper Cherokee PA28. Peters, who had not yet opened his parachute, apparently hit the plane with his ankle, sending it into a fatal tailspin...
...struck the vertical stabilizer in the rear of the aircraft causing it to go into a vertical tailspin from which it never recovered," Mary Culver, a spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration, said in a telephone interview yesterday...
From there, Harvard went into a four-game tailspin while Cornell rebounded to finish fourth in the Ivies...
...when the Sox went into a deep tailspin in May (falling 10 games back), the city reacted as if it had been dumped. The love, the romance and the warm, happy moonlit nights were all gone. Sox Manager Butch Hobson was nearly fired over this breach of trust. Daily, he would be tarred and feathered in print, radio and television...
...games back again and on the brink of elimination. But people still care. In the last five months, Hobson has gone from "most likely to be the first manager to be fired" (spring training) to "genius" (April) to "embattled" (May-June tailspin) to "unparalleled motivator and baseball mind" (July revival) to "he's not great...