Word: straying
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...cars, then everybody back in. A young guerrilla who was acting as the information officer shrieked at us: 'No pictures! No photographs! You will be disciplined!'' ∙ The situation was hardly more stable in Amman, where Palestinian commandos and Jordanian troops were battling in the streets. Stray mortar, small-arms and machine-gun fire pummeled the Jordan Intercontinental Hotel, which functioned as a journalists' headquarters in the capital. Scott, an old hand in Amman, knew all the survival rules. "The bathtub is the safest place to bed down for the night," he says. "But when...
...explosion in midair. But contrary to popular myth, a pressurized cabin will not explode if punctured by one bullet or even by several; it will simply develop a slow leak. More important is the danger that passengers or crew could be shot, as well as the possibility that a stray bullet could sever hydraulic lines or other vital controls and cause the plane to crash. Last week, however, President Nixon's proposal to put sky marshals on U.S. planes received the support of Najeeb Halaby, president of Pan American World Airways, and the U.S. Air Line Pilots Association...
...gauss for the earth's and 100,000 gauss for the strongest fields detected around ordinary stars). Indeed, if a spaceship ever came within 1,000,000 miles of the star, it would be hopelessly stalled by its magnetic field. Still unconvinced, Kemp and Swedlund considered other factors-stray molecules in interstellar space, for example -that might have distorted the dwarf's light. But repeated observations produced the same results. Finally, Columbia University Astronomers Roger Angel and John Landstreet, told of the strange readings atop Pine Mountain, quickly verified them with more powerful telescopes and slightly different techniques...
Darker Than Amber is hardly elegant, but like other stray examples of the type that have appeared over the past couple of years (Blake Edwards' Gunn and Paul Bogart's Marlowe), it proves that the tough-private-eye tradition is hard to kill...
...seven worked as a swineherd to support his family. Later, as a blacksmith's apprentice, working the great bellows and watching metal being hammered into new shapes, he began to dream of creating forms of his own. After his eyesight had been injured by stray sparks from the forge, he joined his family in Madrid and eventually became a baker. Some of the patterns characteristic of Spanish breads can be observed in his sculpture. "All his life he was kneading and sculpting." says Alberto's nephew Jorge, who grew up in his uncle's apartment in Moscow...