Word: wander
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Despite all of these precautions, pilots do occasionally crack up airplanes, and one of the main reasons?a reason that concerns the FAA deeply?is simply that they let their minds wander. In a term of the trade, cockpit discipline breaks down. One chilling example of this occurred on Sept. 11, 1974, when an Eastern DC-9, on a landing approach, hit the ground near Charlotte, N.C. While descending, the pilot?as the flight recorder later showed?chatted amiably about racial integration, Richard Nixon's pardon and the merits of Japanese cars. The pilot and 71 others died...
...Mediterranean and Red seas and the gulfs of Aqaba and Suez, the Sinai peninsula is a generally desolate stretch of sand dunes and granite mountains that is twice the size of Maryland. The desert is more hospitable to scorpions and camels than to men. Apart from Bedouins who wander the dunes and camp in the scattered oases, and soldiers who cautiously patrol old battlefields, Sinai's inhabitants hug the coastlines. Yet for all the peninsula's vast emptiness and apparent lack of natural wealth, Israel appears to be determined to hold on to a third...
...telephone-by occasionally answering rings at the White House and by arranging what he terms "live call-in sessions" to be broadcast on radio. The first will be carried by CBS on March 5 with Walter Cronkite acting as host and screener. If Walter's attention happens to wander, there could be some interesting exchanges between the President (P) and the callers...
Other former residents, intrigued by rumors that don't quite jibe with their own memories of the place, occasionally wander back for a first-hand look. And their conclusions are rarely negative. Matthew W. Copel '79 sums up their feelings best as he sighs ruefully, "I keep telling myself I should have taken a year...
...Project R," as Wander calls it, centers around a chemical agent known as TAF (tumor angiogenesis factor...