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...plane's 256 occupants died instantly. While most were in civilian clothes, some still wore their black jumping boots and the unit's American eagle emblem, selected at the division's creation in 1942 as befitting its military mission: "To crush its enemies by falling upon them like a thunderbolt from the skies." This time there seemed to be no enemy but misfortune, and the Eagles had become victims of their own fatal plunge...
...length about Harvard's massive investments not just in Russia, but the "EVIL EMPIRE" (excessive capitalization for rhetorical effect is the author's). "Failure to divest will prove that the Corporation is as hypocritical as the protesters to whose pressure it has already succumbed," Firestone concludes, as yet another thunderbolt of moral indignation cracks over the heads of the keepers of Harvard's billions...
...last stay, "you got the air. You got exercise, weights. You got baseball." Down the way is a diamond lined with rotting bleachers brought from Ebbets Field after the Dodgers moved their bases west. Down another way, at water's edge, a gull fell like a thunderbolt and dive-bombed a crab. Canadian geese strolled about with proprietary postures, as if they paid property tax. Out on the sound, two swans snagged lunch for three cygnets. Then a backhoe coughed into business and covered Emily Nickert, 78, who lay atop Helen Aleon, 89, whose coffin rested upon someone else...
...financial thunderbolt struck the tiny farm community of Danvers (pop. 920) in west-central Illinois one Friday this month. The First National Bank of Danvers, the only bank in town, with 2,560 accounts and about $11 million in deposits, was declared insolvent by federal authorities and shut down until new owners could reopen it under another name. That same day 2,000 miles away, the Oregon Mutual Savings Bank in Portland also closed its doors before being taken over by an Idaho holding company. The bank had seen its net worth fall nearly 20% in just six months. Said...
...relatively slow A-10 Thunderbolt is a "close-support" aircraft, intended to swoop in low over a battlefield and savage the enemy's infantry and armor. When the prototype jets started flying in 1975, some Air Force brass were worried that its GAU8 antitank cannon was not up to snuff. The nose-mounted, 30-mm weapon was like a Gatling gun, with seven rotating barrels. And like a Gatling gun, it seemed a little oldfashioned, unworthy of a state-of-the-art Air Force. Colonel Bob Dilger was ordered to Dayton to take over the GAU8 program...