Word: flighted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before Dinkins was whisked back to theAirport for an 8:30 p.m. flight, BSA VicePresident Jason B. Phillips '99 managed to ask theformer mayor one final query...
Then, a couple of weeks ago, for a few days, something amazing happened: she, and her relationship with the President, no longer made the headlines. Why? Swissair Flight 111 crashed. For a few days, no one was interested in the President's extra-marital affairs. For a few days, the news was about important world events. What did it take for this to happen? Certainly not the economic troubles of Russia. The economic hardship of millions of people was not news enough to make us forget about Monica...
First came the launch into fame and myth: the New York Times devoted its entire front page to Lindbergh and his flight. When Lindbergh visited England on the way home, King George V greeted him and said, "Now tell me, Captain Lindbergh. There is one thing I long to know. How did you pee?" New York's Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes welcomed him home: "I greet you as the first and finest American boy." TIME beatified Lindbergh as its first Man of the Year...
...highly commercial and cheesy Lindbergh mania seized the country, the 25-year-old loner, disconcerted and flattered at first, began to understand the price to be paid. Anne Morrow, the deeply private daughter of Dwight Morrow, U.S. ambassador to Mexico, married Lindbergh a year after the flight; she eventually became a superb and often popular writer (Gift from the Sea), but shared the terrible price of Lindbergh's celebrity (most devastatingly exacted in the kidnap-murder of their first child in 1932)--and suffered as well from her husband's self-absorbed and cross-grained nature...
...himself flown to his home on Maui, where, with a strange and touching meticulousness, working from checklists, he designed his own tombstone, selected his shroud and supervised the digging of his grave--planning his own death as carefully as he had prepared for his other great flight, years earlier...