Word: exhaustive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NOTHING in the world is more humiliating than being passed on the slopes by a five-year-old tot on skis with a sticker on the back of his jacket reading "Eat my exhaust, sucker!" Unless of course, you count the myriad pre-schoolers who sidle up to you in the ski lodge, look at your ski pass and yell to their moms, "He's only a novice! He's only a novice...
...Navy E-2C radar plane flying nearby heard the Libyan ground controller order the MiG pilots to jink into potential collision courses with the Tomcats. The MiGs normally carry radar-guided Apex as well as heat-seeking Aphid missiles. While the Aphid homes in on a jet's fiery exhaust, the Apex is effective when launched at a target's nose...
...small misstep for a technician and an expensive setback for the next mission of the space shuttle Discovery. Last week a hapless worker, whose name has been withheld to protect him from humiliation, tripped on the tail of his lab coat and piled into the exhaust nozzle of a space rocket that is to ferry an important communications satellite into orbit next February. The accident caused a crack in the heat-resistant carbon nozzle that was too serious to be fixed with a simple patch, and NASA will have to replace the entire first stage of the expensive rocket. Total...
Jackie was helped into the white hearse to ride with Kennedy's body to Air Force One. Everything about the scene was small and colorless -- casket salesman, disheveled reporters, unpainted concrete, exhaust fumes, arguing police and security men, traffic grinding by on a freeway...
...candidates were encouraged to talk about everything but what was happening under their feet. The ground was slipping out from under Americans -- to foreign investors, to revenue collection that has become a vast servicing of our debt, to cold war commitments that do not exude power but exhaust it, to involuntary and unconfessed curtailments of our postwar imperial mission. Who could advert to these amid the smoke of muskets and the feeble blaze of opposed "likabilities...