Word: flew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story grew, other reporters joined in. San Francisco bureau chief David S. Jackson flew to Seattle to interview financier Paul Allen, a key investor. Reporters Tara Weingarten and Lise Hilboldt filled in details of DreamWorks' film and TV plans. And bureau chief Bonfante sounded out tough-minded observers who could subject the company's projections to a skeptical view...
When the time came for blast-off, there was no big clock ticking off a countdown--just a deep voice that suddenly said, "Zazhiganiye [ignition]." As the white Soyuz rocket soared up over the brown Kazakh desert, it flew into a new era of space exploration, transforming one of the 20th century's fiercest rivalries into a partnership for the 21st century. Thagard, 51, became the first American to be shot into space aboard a Russian launcher. And after a two-day ride on the Soyuz, the physician-astronaut became the first American to take up residence...
...little reluctant to meet him and get into business with him because his reputation preceded him. People warned me about the jaws of the shark. But when he walked in the room, I saw someone my mother would like. He's a haimisher guy. What he said sometimes flew over my head, but his enthusiasm was pretty kinetic." Of Paul Allen: "I hugely related to him the second I met him. And he knows how to take a vacation. I'd just taken a year off, so the first thing we began talking about when we met was boating...
...counterparts in men's basketball, the women's coaches have to do a lot of recruiting. But Summitt once had a recruiting experience Bobby Knight will never have. Four years ago, while the then pregnant coach was visiting Marciniak's home in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Summitt's water broke. She flew home to Knoxville, where she gave birth to her son Tyler. But she didn't deliver the point guard until Marciniak decided to transfer after her freshman year at Notre Dame...
...that far, and it might not even leave Antarctica. On the other hand, it may not be the only new peril in southern waters. Says Thomson: "The ice adjacent to where the iceberg broke away has big north-south cracks--we could see these when we flew over." So another country-size slab of ice could be heading out to sea at just about any time...