Word: choppers
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...their tongues heavy and swollen. One paraplegic woman looked as if she had been broiled, her motionless legs beet red on the front and ghostly white on her calves. The evacuees were frightened, of both their plight and the booming helicopter that was there to save them. As the chopper pulled away, mothers down below screamed after it for rescue, holding their children high and sobbing...
...into looters while trying to drive through the waters out of the city. They had very charitably given her raw chicken taken from a freezer of a Church's chicken restaurant. But then they stripped her red Jeep Cherokee of its battery. The car eventually went underwater. Rescued by chopper, she and Shadow, were trying to make sure Van didn't wander off. "He don't know what happened five minutes ago," she said sadly. "He doesn't have any idea there was a hurricane." Dorothy tells me how Van does remember the distant past, however, and likes to brag...
...towers of Gaza City emerge from the blue Mediterranean haze as our chopper glides down from Tel Aviv. The red and white striped communications tower of an Israeli military post marks the northeast corner of the fence surrounding the Gaza Strip. Beyond, where 1.5 million Palestinians live in the dull concrete of densely-packed apartment blocks. The gray is punctuated with blazing strips of sand - these are the open spaces farmed by Israeli settlers who raise crops in greenhouses to counter the barrenness of the dunes...
...prevent terrorists crossing into Israel, gazes out over a sea of concrete. This is the village of Beit Hanoun, which merges with the massive refugee camp of Jabalya and, in turn, Gaza City itself. There is no break in the drab urban sprawl until our Twin Star chopper passes the dunes around the Israeli settlement of Netzarim...
...line. On law enforcement: “I’m a cop, you idiot.” (Kindergarten Cop). On food and agriculture: “Milk is for babies, I drink beer.” (Pumping Iron). And on military affairs: “Get in the chopper. Do it now!” (Predator...