Word: flighted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fourth flight, Sarah McGinty and Jennie Timoney represented Harvard's class...
...familiar face at the top roster for the upcoming season is senior Ivy Wang. Wang was respected enough to be seeded fourth in the tournament's top flight, but was hampered by a shoulder injury throughout the summer and the weekend...
...good humor was only part of the deal. Leslie DiMaggio, 59, of Monterey, Calif., said she was insulted while checking in for her flight here. "Two airline people told me if they weren't able to get everyone on, I'd have to buy another seat." Charles Van Dyke, 46, a Southern Californian--who estimates his weight at 600 lbs., judging by a sumo wrestler roughly his size--nodded understandingly...
Lloyd's of London refused to offer odds; the trip was too dangerous. Then ships in the Atlantic radioed sightings, and after 28 hours of flight, the Spirit of St. Louis crossed Dingle Bay on the southwest coast of Ireland; Lloyd's finally quoted 10-3 against Charles Lindbergh's making Paris. Six hours more, and he touched down at Le Bourget. A crowd of 150,000 engulfed the little plane like a tidal wave...
...boyish aviator from Minnesota--shy, courteous, photogenic and self-contained--was instantly installed as the brightest god in what would become the new polytheism of global celebrity--now perhaps the world's dominant religion. But for Charles Lindbergh, the New York-to-Paris flight, the first solo transatlantic crossing by air, was only the first hop in a more complicated and sometimes less heroic journey...