Word: began
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seeing could not have pleased him. The haze that surrounded his plane as he first climbed into the sky did not disperse, largely obscuring the fingernail paring of a moon that was out that evening. Stars were probably erased completely. Up and down the New England coast, other pilots began flying into the same soup. A number of them radioed the FAA for permission to land at alternative, inland airports, where visibility was better. But Kennedy, who never made radio contact throughout the trip, pressed on. Below his right wing, he may have seen the eastern tip of Long Island...
...Block Island should have been off to the right. Kennedy banked the plane, quickly passed the island and found himself, at last, over utterly open ocean. It was at this moment, according to radar records, that the plane, which had been holding steady at 5,600 ft., suddenly began to descend at about 700 ft. per min. That's not emergency speed for this single-engine aircraft, but it is quicker than normal...
...left. But he got only the voice of a friend whose air conditioning had broken down and who, at John's invitation, was staying in his Tribeca apartment. Yes, John had left. No, he had not been heard from. The Senator reached Hyannis Port the next day and began the vigil. On Sunday, Coast Guard Rear Admiral Richard Larrabee switched to a search-and-recovery effort. This put an end to the hope that anyone would be found alive. Ted issued a statement of the family's "unspeakable grief," lowered the flag to half-staff and then went...
...merry Christmas every year. A middle-age African-American woman with whom he worked in one of the programs he supported was in tears at the recollection of continuous small acts of kindness. The sudden garden that has developed on the front steps of Kennedy's loft building began simply with neighbors paying homage to a neighbor. From such fragments of evidence a whole life is constructed, or reconstructed. The pity for the rest of us is that sometimes one learns of the measure of a life only because it is over...
...antigovernment demonstrations in Belgrade in 1991. In 1993, out in the streets again to fight Milosevic's "Nazi fascist combination," he was arrested, beaten and jailed for 50 days. Since then, Draskovic has played a different game, shifting in and out of opposition. Just before NATO bombs began falling, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Yugoslavia and became a ubiquitous apologist for his country. But in April, after criticizing Milosevic's policies in Kosovo, he was fired...