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5/1 festival that's apt for this puzzle's eight longest answers
Answer for the clue "5/1 festival that's apt for this puzzle's eight longest answers ", 6 letters:
mayday
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mayday is a 2005 American television film , based on the 1979 thriller novel by American author Thomas Block. The novel was updated in 1998 by authors Thomas Block and Nelson DeMille and re-released as a paperback. The film stars Aidan Quinn , Gail O'Grady ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
distress call, 1923, apparently an Englished spelling of French m'aider , shortening of venez m'aider "come help me!" But possibly a random coinage with coincidental resemblance:\n\n"May Day" Is Airplane SOS\n ENGLISH aviators who use radio telephone transmitting ...
Usage examples of mayday.
The frantic pilot put his violently bucking plane into a turn toward the Alaskan islands at the same time his copilot instinctively shouted a Mayday over the radio.
By the time Caleb Rustin arrived at the beacon, the Swallow and the other vessels that had answered the Mayday were widening their search pattern for debris or any other traces.
The dials were jumping, following the audio of the Mayday call still blaring over the speakers.
The “transmit” light glowed feebly as he called, “Mayday, Mayday, Bolo Das Afrika Korps requests and requires assistance!
Fortunately, the Guild had anticipated emergencies such as this, and just as there were protocols for interface turned suddenly hazardous, there were procedures for persuading locked computers or hostile AIs to send a mayday message if a lingster could find no other way.
Perhaps a Starfleet ship on patrol along the Neutral Zone would hear the ancient human cry of sheer disaster, Mayday!
There was nothing wrong with the Saberwing, he claims, so it's likely the mayday was a trap for us.
Keroon had been the fiercest opponent of a homing-capsule Mayday, which he termed an exercise in futility.