Word: newburgh
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...pushed to go on camera. He whispers when he wants to emphasize a point. He speaks in annotations rather than sound bites. His eyes twinkle not when he counts votes but when he quotes Edmund Burke or winds through the story of George Washington quelling a mutiny at Newburgh, N.Y. He was so taken with the portrayal of John Quincy Adams in the movie Amistad that he sent away for the script; he memorized passages about "the very nature of man" and uses them in speeches denouncing partial-birth abortion. "Henry is haunted by the ghosts of this place," says...
Four months after the ValuJet plane went down, a Federal Express DC-10 was forced into an emergency landing at Newburgh, N.Y., because of fire in its cargo hold. The captain reported smoke at the same altitude as Swissair 111--33,000 ft.--and began to descend. Eighteen minutes later, the FedEx crew was sliding down ropes and chutes from the plane, which burned steadily for more than three hours after landing. The cause of the fire was never pinpointed, but investigators discovered such undeclared items as aerosol cans and plastic bottles containing acidic liquids, prompting the National Transportation Safety...
...snitch,'' said intelligence sources, ``tells the R.S.O. Yousef has just got back from Bangkok, and he's getting ready to leave for Peshawar.'' After Yousef was apprehended at the Su Casa Guest House, he was bundled on to a military 707 jet and flown to Stewart Airport in Newburgh, New York. He made the quick flight into Manhattan on a Port Authority Sikorsky S-76A, finally returning to the scene of his most infamous exploit and the site of his arraignment and future trial. ``We got lucky,'' said a Justice Department official...
...Then in 1990, 13 eighth-graders passed first-year college-level exams, again in reading and math. School attendance hovers around 96%, and during the past six years only five children have dropped out. Those numbers were impressive enough to inspire the New York school districts of Yonkers and Newburgh and the Massachusetts district of Pepperell to create their own versions of Microsociety, and two weeks ago the doors of Manhattan's first Micro school opened -- just 10 blocks from the slums where Richmond grew...