Word: teared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tear rolled down his cheek...
...same time, individual planes are making more flights and longer ones. A chief measure of wear and tear in an aircraft fuselage is the "pressurization cycle" -- one takeoff, one landing -- which requires that the cabin be pressurized for high-altitude flight and then depressurized during descent. This places stress on the airframe; over time, repeated expansion and contraction weaken the plane. Like a balloon that has been inflated too many times, the plane's skin becomes vulnerable to tearing. But while the Flight 811 jet has been in service for 19 years and is one of the oldest in United...
This week the Air Transport Association, the airlines' trade group, is expected to recommend some 200 changes in federal regulations that govern maintenance. One especially significant proposal: to remove airliners from service after a specified level of wear and tear, perhaps 80,000 cycles, and rebuild the planes from the wheels up. Says A.T.A. Vice President William Jackman: "It's a first step in a series of safety measures . . . a major effort by the airlines and planemakers to assure the airworthiness of passenger aircraft." With planes falling to pieces in the sky, passengers will appreciate that...
Perhaps the worst violence occurred in Guarenas, a shantytown about 12 miles from the capital where the disturbances began. People there formed human chains and threw rocks at National Guard troops in armored cars after the soldiers began firing birdshot and tear gas at looters...
Residents in San Agustin del Sur took over the Francisco Fajardo Highway, the city's main artery, Monday afternoon. They fought a battle with police that began with rocks and tear gas and ended with gunfire from both sides...