Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back in the passenger areas, the mood remained relaxed. Some travelers noticed the wide turn to the southwest and heard the thrust in the two wing engines change, alternately increasing and decreasing. Haynes was apparently relying on a technique that pilots call "porpoising," adjusting the thrust of his two remaining engines in a desperate effort to control the plane. Passenger Kathleen Batson joked that the engine problem would get them priority-landing rights in Chicago. "We won't be circling O'Hare," she quipped...
...games, and its commissioner, Pete Rozelle, sent a letter to the Oregon governor, stating his objections to that state's gambling plan. Jim Heffernan, the league's spokesperson, says that it would not be surprising if the NFL took similar actions if Massachusetts appeared close to adopting a state-wide betting scheme...
...truth," Bush told the students. "And what better example of this could there be than one simple fact: Karl Marx University has dropped Das Kapital from its required reading list." All over the hall George Bush, a proud product of U.S capitalism, saw the young Hungarians break into wide smiles and nod in agreement...
...astonishment of black and white South Africans, the government disclosed last week that the chasm may not be as impossibly wide as once thought. In his 27th year of imprisonment, serving a life sentence for sabotage, Mandela accepted an invitation from Botha to meet face to face for the first time. The two adversaries spent 45 minutes on July 5 talking "in a pleasant spirit" and sipping tea. It was not a negotiation, said Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee, who also participated, but the two foes confirmed "their support for peaceful development in South Africa." By agreeing to that, Mandela seemed...
...need for peace. Even the downside is welcomed. Given the undisputed hardening of opinion -- especially among those Israelis and Palestinians who have reached their majority since Israel took the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 -- failing to resolve the matter peacefully now will almost inevitably lead to another region-wide Arab-Israeli war. "Which we would win," says an aide to Ariel Sharon confidently. "And then we will be that much closer to the transfer" -- Israeli-speak for kicking the Palestinians out of the territories once...