Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...airliner, descending and beginning to turn, had overtaken the small, ascending craft from the rear. The 727's nose wheel hooked the Cessna and flipped the light plane against the airliner's lowered right wing. Both planes plunged toward the earth...
...still heading east as First Officer Robert E. Fox lowered the craft's wing flaps to slow it to 170 m.p.h. He dropped the landing gear and pulled the plane's nose up, in preparation for banking sharply to the right...
...from the earth they scorched in a vain attempt to hold off the advancing barbarians. This is the year the swell for labor law reform hit a crosswind; the year natural gas deregulation came in a gusher. This is the year of The Great Temptation to trumpet a Right-Wing Trend. Well, get thee behind me, Satan. Because this is a year like most years in American politics...
Meanwhile, everyone is waiting for an imminent announcement of new plans for renovating the Fogg. Last November Fogg officials said they would take over Burr Hall for the Fine Arts Library and build a new wing onto the museum...
...DAYS AGO the United States formally asked Chile to extradite three former Chilean secret police agents who have been accused of assasinating Orlando Letelier, former Chilean ambassador to the U.S. under Allende and outspoken critic of the present right wing military junta...