Word: fields
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sunny Friday afternoon, thousands of Chicago motorists lucky enough to get off to a fast start on the long Memorial Day weekend streamed out along Interstate 90. Brisk winds rippled the green field between the crowded highway and O'Hare International Airport. Half an hour later, the field was shrouded in black smoke, and firemen held hoses on a flaming aircraft engine. Police and other emergency workers stepped gingerly through scattered and smoldering wreckage, looking for signs of life. They found none...
...body, or parts of a body, they stuck a pole into the ground. As the wind fleetingly blew the smoke away, the eerie signs could be briefly seen. Some bodies were pinpointed by red markers, others by yellow, still others by black, or even wooden sticks. The field became a multicolored jumble of signposts of death...
...that field, which was an abandoned private airport immediately north of the world's busiest terminal, 271 people had died. They had crashed to earth in an American Airlines DC-10, which had taken off from O'Hare at 3 p.m. on a four-hour, nonstop flight to Los Angeles. The huge wide-body plane (its cabin is 136 ft. long and 19 ft. wide) had flown only half a mile...
...compound, the other engine shut off. So there was complete silence in the air. And then the plane turned, perpendicular to the ground, with the left wing facing down and the right wing facing up." As the stricken plane kept descending, the wing slashed a trough through the field, like a farmer driving a plow. Then the craft disintegrated...
...about the high school All-American hockey player who was just accepted with a 375 verbal SAT score (you get 200 points for signing your name). I don't feel good when I read about hallowed high school athletes who quickly succumb to the pressures of life off the field at Harvard. They withdraw from Cambridge, perhaps never to be heard from again. They come here thinking that it will somehow all fall into place for them as it did in high school, where they were walking idols. But the Beaulieus and the Cuccias walk away disillusioned and disenchanted, swallowed...