Word: wheels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instant, the pilot of the American flight, traveling at 500 m.p.h., saw the blinking red and green lights of the TWA flight dead ahead of him. His view of the aircraft, he said later, "filled my whole windscreen." He plunged the wheel of his ascending DC-10 violently forward, sending the plane into a sudden 35° nosedive. He reached a recorded altitude only 47 ft. below the other aircraft's, and his tail may have come as close as 20 ft. to the TWA plane...
...Mary from Atlanta, who thought in wide circles about porches and the past and small towns in summer--facts and memories of detail which transfixed her at the wheel of her open car and made her arms shake and her back cold, although these things were not remarkable, and neither was her life. Neither was her life, a life of love although she did not know for what, unless it was for small pictures which occurred to her or which she saw in quiet moments alone staring at the whiteness of the castled city or across the Bay to reddened...
...death warrant." He sees himself as a "centrist" able to appeal to independents and middle-of-the-road voters disenchanted with both parties. But why not fight from within his own party for the nomination? Because that, he believes, would only pour "water on Reagan's wheel." The entrance of any moderate or liberal Republican would undoubtedly draw more G.O.P. votes away from Ford than Reagan, thus increasing Reagan's chances of embarrassing Ford in the primaries...
...week of schooling they were taught a number of evasive tactics that had been developed, in racier days, by whisky runners and bank heisters. The curriculum consisted of running a roadblock and executing a "bootleg turn," an intricate maneuver of locking on the emergency brake while spinning the steering wheel to excecute a 180° turn within a two-lane road. The bootleg is not recommended for amateurs, but it may be one way for the skilled driver to get away from kidnapers or terrorists. Or at least prolonging the chase...
Clumsy Giant. Teotihuacanos used neither metal, the wheel nor draft animals. How they kept records remains a mystery; researchers have thus far found no conclusive evidence that they had a written language. But there is ample evidence that the ancient city enjoyed considerable prestige. A political and religious center dug up near Guatemala City shows what Pennsylvania State University Archaeologist William Sanders considers "a slavish imitation of Teotihuacan style." Artifacts unearthed in Belize, 700 miles away, show a similar influence...