Word: 44th
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...same circumstances, would we behave as well as those who performed feats of courage and kindness? Would I risk my own life to help a colleague? A stranger? Would I, like the maintenance worker in the basement of the WTC, leave the relative safety of my office for the 44th floor to help people down...
Michael Otten, an assistant vice president at Mizuho Capital Markets, was headed down the stairs around the 46th floor when the announcement came over the loudspeakers that the south tower was secure, people could go back to their desks or leave the building. He proceeded to the 44th floor, an elevator-transfer floor. One elevator loaded up and headed down, then came back empty, so he and a crowd of others piled in. One man's backpack kept the doors from closing. The seconds ticked by. "We wanted to say something, but the worst thing...
...Michael Otten, an assistant vice president at Mizuho Capital Markets, was headed down the stairs around the 46th floor when the announcement came over the loudspeakers that the south tower was secure, people could go back to their desks or leave the building. He proceeded to the 44th floor, an elevator-transfer floor. One elevator loaded up and headed down, then came back empty, so he and a crowd of others piled in. One man's backpack kept the doors from closing. The seconds ticked by. "We wanted to say something, but the worst thing...
...seconds, just off the pace of the personal-best, meet-record time of 13.56 seconds she ran at Outdoor Heps two weeks ago, which helped her earn Athlete of the Meet Honors. She is also a provisional NCAA qualifier in the 100 hurdles, in which she is ranked 44th in the nation. Nevertheless, her competitive focus at the national level is entirely on the 400 hurdles...
...hours of April Fools' Day. Six times, F-8s zipped past the lumbering U.S. planes with less than 30 ft. to spare. Twice they had come within 10 ft. of the U.S. aircraft, "thumping" them by rocking the American planes in the turbulence of their exhaust. But on the 44th intercept, the Chinese, according to the U.S. account, went from a close call to a collision with the plane carrying Osborn and his 23 crewmates...