Word: flew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long ago in the backwoods of West Virginia, the flag in front of my high school flew at half-mast. Martin Vineyard, Union High School Class of 1988, United States Marine Corps, was listed killed in action. When the mother of my high-school buddy Sonny told me the story, she suddenly burst into tears in front of me; her son was getting ready to ship out to Saudi Arabia...
...minds eats away at public responsibility. Judges in separate courtrooms the other day pronounced sentence on Marion Barry, the mayor of Washington (six months for possession of cocaine, the drug that is tearing his city apart) and on three Northwest Airlines pilots who, while drunk one morning last spring, flew a Boeing 727 with 91 passengers aboard from Fargo, N. Dak., to Minneapolis. Mayor Barry, still running the addict's street con, portrayed himself as the victim of racial prejudice and, worse, as a man who has recovered from his problem and mended his ways...
Like the time during Donato's senior year when Memorial was down to outclassed Malden Catholic, 6-5, near the buzzer. When Memorial tied the game in the last minute, the coach told Donato to end it. Donato took the puck behind his own net and promptly flew end-to-end, singlehandedly faking out Malden's entire team to push the puck in for the victory...
...year's funniest prank. The hecklers jeer at love scenes, hoot at tacky special effects and pounce on every dumb line. Creator Joel Hodgson and his colleagues throw in savvy technical references ("I think we just flew through a dissolve," someone cracks during an airplane flight) along with a torrent of smart-mouthed ad libs. "How do we stand on fuel?" asks an onscreen astronaut. "I'm for it," comes the offscreen retort. In the tense few seconds before lift-off, a voice pipes up, "Did I leave the water running?" A scientist leans into a pair of earphones, trying...
Might sound like sour grapes--if you did not see the game. The Crimson (4-6-1) flew by the Eagles defenders, shut down any B.C. attack and controlled the ball with perhaps its best play of the season...