Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...destination was Paris, but instead a TWA Boeing 747 burst into flames at dusk, falling into the sea off the coast of New York and setting its waters ablaze. Now, even as America mourns the 230 victims, the country must discover whether this catastrophe is the latest angry assault on its soul...
...across the news last week, with reports of suspicious cargo that might have slipped onto the plane or of manifestos claiming responsibility for the deed. But any case for a bomb--and against bombers--begins with hard evidence from the crash site itself. And so last week the U.S. Coast Guard methodically raked up the debris off Long Island, 16 miles south of Moriches Inlet. Searchers ranged over an area of 240 square miles, neatly subdivided into nine grids. Each grid was systematically combed in a zigzag pattern; every piece of debris, of trash, every personal item and body part...
...break apart and go down in the sea. In a second or two, a typically dank Long Island South Shore night goes from languor to amazement to horror. Private vessels are first to rush toward the site through the Moriches Inlet, which opens to the ocean. Zodiacs from the Coast Guard station follow. Cutters come soon after. Emergency vehicles make a long, undulating necklace of light on the roads leading to town. The air is thick with police sirens and slow, mournful fire alarms. Everyone turns on the news...
Between Levittown and the Land of the Neverending Fund Raiser lies East Moriches, where people fish, farm, run "country stores" and "garden centers," teach, practice law, hang dry walls and dig swimming pools for other people. On Atlantic Avenue, which leads to the Coast Guard station, the trees are fat, the sidewalks cracked, the homes need reshingling and bikes lean on kickstands in the driveways...
...know it's important, but I wish they wouldn't go so fast. Kids play on this street, ya know." The heavyset woman hosing down her trash cans refers to the onrushing traffic to and from the Coast Guard station, where the police, the politicians, the FBI and the press have their separate clusters and where bodies are being brought by boat to the cement pier...