Word: wisp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Germany, the U.S. and Japan. Then he started to weep and apologized for "causing everyone so much inconvenience." When the last passenger had left the plane, the skyjackers set fire to it. Reports TIME'S Joseph Fitchett, who was on the scene: "Passengers were barely clear before a wisp of black smoke curled out of the cockpit. A tongue of flame followed, then crept back along the top of the fuselage. The plane began to collapse with a series of small reports. Finally, the tail section keeled down, and half an hour after touchdown, three big explosions, like distant...
There were in Hanoi the first hints for Kissinger from his overly polite hosts that they were considering what it might be like to spend their time and energy building a society rather than warring. It was hardly spoken, a fragile wisp of human yearning that hung on the idea that America might help them. Kissinger clutched it and brought it home, and Nixon is now nurturing...
...stock market, which for years has been crowded with heavy breathers at the merest wisp of a peace rumor, inscrutably chose the session immediately following President Nixon's cease-fire announcement to stage a flounder. The Dow Jones industrial average, the most closely watched barometer, fell 14 points, its largest decline in 18 months. On Friday, the Dow closed at 1,004, off 23 points for the week and down 48 points from its high so far in what was supposed to be a banner year...
...Claudio Abbado not only has opted for a newly cleaned-up version of the score (with spurious arias discarded, and some of Rossini's original instrumentation restored), but has produced a performance totally dedicated to the opera's unceasing wit, sane dramatics and will-o'-the-wisp musical acrobatics...
...midst of an extremely healthy growth period, would probably pick up yet a bit more quickly on the psychological lifting power of a rise in consumer confidence. That in turn might light up Wall Street. The key Dow Jones industrial average after all has jumped following every wisp of a peace rumor for years. Yet strangely last week, when peace seemed closer than ever, the Dow Jones rose less than four points; the most plausible explanation that brokers could offer was that investors had largely discounted a settlement in advance. Brokers remain optimistic, agreeing with Spencer Trask & Co.'s Raymond...