Word: airs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then had Warren Luhning, a rookie forward, take shots on me. What I didn't realize was that Luhning had not yet scored an NHL goal and had a lot of pent-up aggression. This became obvious when he skated around the net with his arms in the air after scoring an 80-m.p.h. slap shot on me. Potvin thought that was overdoing...
...Branson, Mo. Born Lecil Travis Martin, Boxcar was the son of a railroad man and grew up alongside a train track. In the 1960s he spotted a hobo who reminded him of Willie Nelson and was moved to write the song Boxcar Willie. After 22 years in the Air Force, where he logged 10,000 hours as a flier, he adopted the hobo persona of stubble and a crumpled...
Since Operation Allied Force began a month ago, B-2 bombers from this Air Force base in Knob Noster, Mo., have been making a pressure-packed debut. Adding to the stress of combat has been the close eye of B-2 skeptics. But speaking to TIME last week in their first interviews, pilots say the machine has been a dream to fly. The men described taking off over the soybean fields on 30-hr. flights, often made by pairs of planes, with two men aboard each. One sometimes naps while the other monitors the plane's computer systems, which...
...guys landed in a driving rainstorm. We're the key ingredient in the bad weather over there." Pilots are delighted with their mount. Says one: "We don't worry about threats [such as plane-killing missiles], because the plane keeps you safe." In a low-tech touch, however, the Air Force phones all the pilots' wives the minute the planes finish over their targets, letting them know their husbands are en route back to their heartland homes...
...this training has produced a 62-year-old man of appealing parts. He dresses like a banker and has the face of a kid who is ready to be pleasantly surprised. In conversation he remembers every ball he has tossed in the air, and just when you think that a long discourse is about to fall off the earth, he brings it tidily home. His voice lilts upward, giving everything he says, including instructions to his staff, confidence with gentleness. And he is funny--not so much on his own, but he likes to quote the witty things said...