Word: craft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...view of the explosion of TWA Flight 800, the speculation that the airliner may have been brought down by an errant missile is gaining a bit on the credibility scale. While the FBI has bluntly dismissed descriptions by several eyewitnesses who thought they saw a glowing object approach the craft just before the catastrophic explosion, it's a little harder to write off the testimony of Captain Chris Baur, an Air National Guard chopper pilot who witnessed the crash at close range and mounted the initial rescue effort. According to National Guard sources, B aur told his superiors that night...
...began writing seriously in January, I realized that I knew enough about my subject to write as an authority. I started to craft words and ideas and engage with the thought of other historians. And at one point deep in February, the project became fully mine; not the half-cooked product of haphazardly throwing together other scholars' foot-notes, but a paper with its own spirit. As much as I scoffed at the thought a year ago, the thesis did end up becoming a "capstone experience" of my academic career...
...Katzenberg was known as Mouschwitz or Duckau. When Dunne describes his open-heart surgery, Walt Disney Co. chairman Michael Eisner responds, "Of course, mine was more serious." Dunne's account sometimes reads like a nonfiction sequel to his satiric 1994 Hollywood novel, Playland. But without fiction's remove and craft this chronicle often seems like a hasty downloading of shoptalk and tele-shmoozing. It may be too much to expect 27 rewrites, but one more scroll through the laptop might have tightened things up. Beyond this quibble, however, Monster contains more than enough cautionary experience to be a required text...
...career, when he willed his body through three epic bouts with Joe Frazier, he was a courageous fighter. Toward the end, when he paced his... resources to turn away muscular challengers...he was a thinking fighter. Last week he was an old fighter. He had to match the craft of his past against an opponent who seemed to have little more than youth...and courage on his side...
...area. While the F-16 pilot?s commander quickly instructed him to veer away from the airliner, Air Force officials so far have no plans to reprimand the pilot for hanging frighteningly close to the commercial plane after it was obvious that it was an innocent craft. To prevent future mishaps, Major General Donald Peterson said the Air Force would give regular training for pilots on civilian Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance Systems; would implement new procedures to rely more heavily on radar and contact with controllers in identifying unexpected aircraft, and will conduct a special review of military operations...