Word: gately
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that humid Wednesday evening in New York, total strangers gathered to share a common fate, waiting outside Gate 27 to board a 7-hr. 15-min. flight to Paris. There was the contingent of high school kids from Pennsylvania off to France for a field trip; there was the 11-year-old exchange student returning home after collecting loads of Chicago Bulls and New York Knicks basketball memorabilia; the Connecticut engineering manager planning a romantic interlude for the woman he hoped would agree to become his fiance; the mother who overcame her fear of flying so she could tour medieval...
...seem to have any. Indeed, there are only minor infractions on its Federal Aviation Administration record: a blown tire on takeoff in 1987 and a leaky oil line that resulted in an engine shutdown in 1988. And thus, at 8:02 p.m. on Wednesday, N93119 left the gate and taxied toward the runway. A few minutes later it would be in the air, flying eastward over the narrow, ragged strip of Long Island on the way to Europe...
...York from Athens takes 10 hours. To Athens' credit, Greek airport security appears to have improved. Last week passengers on the original TWA flight to New York were screened three times before boarding, once by Greek airport officials and again by TWA employees at check-in and at the gate. At J.F.K. the passengers went through only one screening...
...GATES' NETSCAPE-GATE...
...nothing else of any benefit ever comes of Whitewater, at least maybe, at long merciful last, you in the media will finally stop hanging -gate on the end of everything from jaywalking to capital murder (Billygate, contra-gate, Irangate, travelgate, skategate, ad nauseam). First, though, we have to find a cute replacement that you can cement yourselves to for the next half-century or so. Let's see: "Whitebilly" (nah)..."travelwater" (ugh). I despair. ERIC POOLE Londonderry, New Hampshire Via E-mail