Word: ens
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...Legs Diamond and drifting members of the Phelan family. This time out the year is 1849 and the narrative mode has changed from naturalistic to headlong melodramatic. In short order, an exotic singer and dancer named Magdalena Colon drowns while being ferried across the ice-clogged Hudson River en route from Albany to a theatrical engagement in Troy. The entertainer's body and the shivering form of her surviving niece Maud, 12, are fished out of the current and taken to the immense mansion of Hillegond Staats, a widow whose hospitality had regaled them before the accident...
...milk run, a routine bit of island hopping. The Aloha Airlines jet was cruising at 24,000 ft., just 25 miles southeast of the Hawaiian island of Maui, en route from Hilo to Honolulu. Everything seemed normal aboard Flight 243 last Thursday afternoon when suddenly -- with a whoosh like a paper bag popping -- a gaping hole blew open in the fuselage directly above the first- class compartment. "Everything was flying around -- books, papers, money," said Stanford Samson, a passenger seated nearby. "A stewardess was in the aisle being pulled toward the hole. Everybody who could grabbed her and held onto...
Gauguin's achievement has always been hard to assess because so much of his late work, done between his final departure from France in 1895 and his death on the tiny, remote island of Hivaoa in 1903, was bought en bloc by Russian collectors, ended up in the Hermitage and the Pushkin Museum, and has not been seen in the West since 1906. The show contains eleven of these "Russian" Gauguins...
Engle, who was playing aggressively at the net, made some remarkable shots that just died in front of Hentschel, en route to winning the final two games, set and match. Engle's victory gave the Crimson a 2-1 lead with three more singles matches remaining...
Murphy surrendered only four hits en route to leading his team to an 11-4 triumph in front of 100 spectators at Soldiers Field...