Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summers ago, in 1977, my friend Sue called the hotel in Chicago where the Red Sox were staying on road trip. She asked for Butch Hobson's room. She talked to Butch Hobson. I was jealous, but never stopped to question why an 11-year-old could carry on a perfectly normal conversation with an older man she had never met, halfway across the country...
McFarlane testified that he was unaware of the diversion until North told him about it during their trip home from Iran in May 1986. North did not contradict this...
...process of reaching for an adjacent engine control switch. Passengers donned their life jackets and prepared for an emergency landing in the Pacific as the jet glided to within 600 ft. of the waves. At the last moment, the crew managed to restart the engines and resume the trip to Cincinnati, but the pilots were suspended on arrival. The Federal Aviation Administration immediately ordered the installation of plastic switch-guard shields on the control panels of 767s and similarly equipped 757s to prevent a recurrence of the pilot error...
...Driver Hari Singh pulled his crowded vehicle out of the Punjab capital of Chandigarh shortly after nightfall for what was to have been a routine trip to Rishikesh, a Hindu pilgrim center in Uttar Pradesh. But half an hour into the journey, a white Fiat suddenly stopped in front of the bus, forming a blockade. Five armed men, four of them turbaned in the manner of Sikhs, burst out of the car, threw Singh off the bus and commandeered his vehicle. After driving the bus to a nearby field, the gunmen opened fire, instantly killing 38 men, women and children...
...still alive and kicking") and then into a frenzy of storytelling ("an attempt to put off the end with words"). He resuscitates Oskar of The Tin Drum, now nearing 60 and the head of a film and videocassette production company, and sends him on a trip to Poland to attend his grandmother's 107th birthday party. He revives the plot and premise of The Flounder and sets five women in charge of a sailing barge on the Baltic Sea, ostensibly testing for the stultification of that body of water by jellyfish pollution but really looking for the underwater feminist city...