Word: flew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Providence then came back with a chance of its own. A corner kick sailed over the Harvard defenders and the ball ended up bouncing dangerously close to the net. Fortunately for the Crimson an attempted bicycle kick flew wide to the left keeping Harvard ahead by one at the intermission...
Designer Paco Rabanne had predicted that the Russian Mir station would fall on France during the eclipse. Revelers held a "survivor's party" outside his headquarters. French ornithologists reported panic-stricken reactions of birds, particularly sea gulls, who clamorously flew out to sea, returning once daylight resumed...
...ocean well before it reached the landing strip. For a pilot flying in better conditions--even an inexperienced pilot--the next step would be obvious: look out your window, get your bearings and level out your plane. J.F.K. Jr. didn't have that option. No matter how low he flew, there was still haze...
...flew by helicopter to Caroline's country house in Bridgehampton, N.Y., to comfort the niece he treats like a daughter over the loss of her brother, whom he loved like a son. There was a torch being passed after all. In the '60s, Ted Kennedy's generation orchestrated the death rituals. Now the old Senator was going to let Caroline, a member of the new generation, take charge. There were terrible decisions to be made, but not before Uncle Ted shot baskets with Caroline's kids until they could be heard squealing with delight behind the hedge...
...legend will grow now that he's gone. The pathos of this story, the sense of fate drawing him into its clutches, the broken ankle, his anxiety about the flight, the heavy traffic en route to the airport and the late takeoff, darkness setting in as he flew up the coast, the refusal to turn back, the radio silence, the nearly moonless night, the descent into the mist and the horizonless dark, and the terrible, spiraling fall...