Word: groundedness
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The race to put the first birds on the table is frenetic. This Glorious Twelfth, the Onslow Arms in the Surrey suburb of West Clandon dispatched a helicopter to the Heriot moor south of Edinburgh, and 18 still warm grouse were rushed to a London-bound plane. At Heathrow Airport...
According to early estimates, Allen caused no deaths in the U.S. "Everybody really jumped and left," said National Hurricane Forecaster Gil Clark. "There is not much chance of loss of life unless someone stayed down on one of the beaches." For a while, a tanker grounded by the storm 12...
Sometimes the Pentagon's censors are too clever by half. Or by whole. Take this excerpt from the transcript of closed-door testimony on the 1981 defense budget that was released after sensitive information had been snipped out by the Defense Department: "On Jan. 14, there were 110 F...
SOME TIME AGO, a Hollywood producer sat down and thought it might be great fun to make a parody of a disaster movie. The product of his thoughts was The Big Bus, the story of a nuclear-powered bus that ends up half over a cliff in the middle of...
"Sometimes a song comes to me in a dream," she says. "I hear chords I don't know, then a voice says I don't practice enough because if I did I'd recognize them." However lofty Dalton's trajectory, it. will likely remain solidly grounded...