Word: hovers
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...sitting in a darkened room as the battle played out in front of me. “In what many historians regard as the bloodiest fighting of the entire war…” a recorded narrator intoned. We watched the red lights blink towards the blue lights, hover, and fall back. Three days. And 50,000 casualties.The blonde woman in front of me shook her head. The narrator moved on to the predictable ending. “We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall...
...dominated by the AP machine, a chest-high teletype that pumped bulletins into our midst by stamping upper-case letters onto an endless, Kerouacian scroll. During the Iran hostage drama that dragged on for what seemed like half our time at Harvard, Jim Hershberg ’82 would hover over the machine through the night, awaiting some hopeful breakthrough or awful denouement. Occasionally the bell would ring to announce some report of special note—though, by my senior year, it seemed to have gone haywire, and would “ding” wimpily at odd moments...
...fighting was vicious. One of Jim's Apaches was brought down by enemy fire; both pilots were too badly injured to get out, and the chopper was likely to explode. Unable to land nearby, Jim had his helicopter hover over the crash site. He then jumped to the ground, injuring his back but not badly enough to prevent him from pulling both pilots from the downed helicopter and staying with them until a medical evacuation team arrived...
...Golf has targets just as small and distant-and makes people just as obsessive. The difference with shooting is that, well, you do it with guns. And bullets. Which were invented for one purpose: war. Beyond the shooting range's black-and-yellow targets hover ghosts. My club, Sydney's Royal Australian Naval Reserve Rifle Club, has its origins in the military. Most of the 170 members are civilians, but every Saturday, builders, bankers, surgeons, ex-servicemen, chiropractors, chefs and electricians-men and women, from teenagers to 80-year-olds-compete in honor of some milestone in military history: last...
...this country as well. And yet he does not seem to be without hope. For Stopforth, his status as an immigrant helps him to be aware and interact with art and politics in a unique way. He says, “I engage with history, with memory; I hover between two places, which is a way of forming insight.” Whether explaining the long-term use of Robin Island on the tip of Southern Africa as a place where “people who were considered outsiders, whether lepers or political prisoners, were kept” or evoking...