Word: flew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taken the friend's toddler to the toilet in the sleeper. When the crash rocked the train, Dowe immediately pushed her friend's son out of the bathroom and screamed at him to run back to his mother. Then the door slammed shut, trapping her within. Meanwhile, as baggage flew and bodies tumbled, June Bonnin, 47, was trying to save her wards. The co-proprietor of an elegant bed-and-breakfast in Nesbit, Miss., was with her daughter Ashley, 8, granddaughter Jessica, 12, and two children of family friends at a slumber party in the sleeper when the collision occurred...
...Yosemite's western edge. Pelosso, the daughter of a friend Sund met in 1973, when she spent her high school senior year in Argentina, had joined the Sunds for a three-month vacation. The Sunds had shown her Disneyland and the Bay Area, and on Feb. 12, Sund flew to San Francisco with the girls and rented a car so they could drive to Yosemite. They stopped in Stockton, where Julie Sund competed in a state cheerleading contest, then continued to the park, arriving two days later...
...working on a draft of a document that would rewrite Jordanian history--a letter replacing his 51-year-old brother Hassan as heir with his son Abdullah, 37. When doctors advised him to return to the U.S., Hussein quickly finished the letter, had it read on Jordanian television and flew to the Mayo Clinic...
PAUL MACCREADY In 1977 one of MacCready's creations, the Gossamer Condor, a kitelike affair powered only by a furiously pedaling cyclist-pilot, flew more than 7 min. Two years later, the Gossamer Albatross, an improved model, was pedaled across the English Channel. In 1981 a pilot took the sun-powered Solar Challenger 163 miles from France to a base in England. No wonder the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1980 named MacCready its Engineer of the Century. In the years since, MacCready has fashioned such marvels as the wing-flapping pterodactyl that flew in the IMAX film...
...were wings being built as well as wheels. When the Wright brothers finally realized their vision of powered human flight in 1903, they made the world a forever smaller place. I've been to Kitty Hawk, N.C., and seen where the brothers imagined the future, and then literally flew across its high frontier. It was an inspiration to be there, and to soak up the amazing perseverance and creativity of these two pioneers...