Word: crashed
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...relief agencies, including the U.S. Catholic Conference, which already has aided 55,000 refugees in beginning new lives in the U.S. To help, the Federal Government has increased its resettlement aid from $300 per refugee to as much as $2,000. At Fort Chaffee, the refugees will be given crash English language courses and training in such necessary skills as shopping in American supermarkets. Still, warned David Lewis, who heads the Catholic Conference office at Fort Chaffee, there are no short cuts. Said he: "At the current rate, we will have to continue our work into next year...
...hits. But no deafening, jolting crash occurs. On impact, the two cars swing away easily, for they are on casters and covered with polyurethane foam pads. The terrorist threat was not for real, but still there is genuine sweat on the driver's palms. This is part of the final exam given at the BSR Counter-Terrorist Driving School. It is the culmination of a four-day course held at Summit Point, W. Va., about 80 miles west of Washington. Instructor Bill Scott, 42, a Yale Ph.D. in geology and an ex-champion Formula Super Vee race-car driver...
...shooting up an old Buick with a 9-mm machine gun, an automatic pistol and a 12-gauge shotgun so the students will be familiar with the firepower available to the "opposition." Most slugs easily penetrate the side of the car. Then four of the class put on crash helmets and seat belts for an initiation run around the track in one of Scott's four new, high-performance Chevrolet Malibu police cars...
...problems began, paradoxically, with a decision that was at first applauded. To avoid the unrest that had top pled his predecessor, Wladyslaw Gomulka, in 1970, recently ousted Party Chief Edward Gierek embarked on a crash program to modernize Polish industry. The first results were impressive. From 1971 to 1975 industrial output soared 70%, and real wages rose at an annual average...
Because Woody Allen, like Fellini, has an acute sense of the absurd, he can see as much humor in his own splintered isolation as he can in the clumsy attempts of outsiders to break into the cage, to crash the cocktail party inside his head. Stardust Memories is a schizoid invitation to that party. The card says: COME ONE, COME ALL. BRING YOUR OWN BOOS. And in a fine hand at the bottom you can read: TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT...