Word: choppered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...olestra. Because the stuff has not been approved by the FDA, each of us has signed a Procter & Gamble "informed consent" release, which we notice with some discomfort bears the 800 number of a doctor to call in case of emergency. This fellow, whose name is Sweeney, will chopper in with a medevac team if something goes wrong. Or so we assume...
...brass when she complained of the Navy's malfeasance in probing her charges, says Greene's alleged behavior, while it may seem almost innocent, can be unnerving. "It's intimidating coming from a boss, but that's something a lot of men just don't get," the unemployed former chopper pilot said last week. Coughlin's experience does not make her optimistic that the Greene case will lead to enlightenment. Although more than 140 Navy and Marine officers were cited for wrongdoing at the Tailhook convention at the Las Vegas Hilton, none was convicted at court-martial...
...were permitted to land. More than 25 minutes of circling Fraenckel and Stuart-Jervis' craft, however, brought no reply from inside the gondola, which was covered with thick canvas. After firing warning shots, the helicopter pilot became convinced that the craft was unmanned. Ordered to bring it down, the chopper fired about 20 bullets, enough to send the balloon and its gondola plunging to the forest below. Belarussian officials then kept silent for 24 hours while they sifted the wreckage and identified the mangled bodies...
...Bosnia. I was in the dirt, my face down, right along with O'Grady. I was crying with Captain Thomas Hanford when he flew over the Adriatic and heard O'Grady's radio signal. My heart was pounding along with Marine Sergeant Major Angel Castro's after the successful chopper rescue. I made the helicopter ride of a lifetime with Marines Paul Bruce and Michael Pevear. And finally, I too smelled the cypress and pine trees of the Dalmatian coast. It made me feel great. Joe Raymond Long Beach, California...
FRANK GIBNEY'S FIRST VISION OF Vietnam was postapocalyptic. "The ghosts of the war were everywhere," he recalls of his trip in March 1984. "The piles of Huey chopper parts at Tan Son Nhut airport, the musty bar of the Caravelle Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City. In Hanoi rats scurried through the hotel; the water was cold." There was an air of huddled secrecy. "You couldn't get a straight answer out of anyone. The people who could articulate the state of affairs were diplomats, themselves grasping at bits of information...