Word: parise
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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As the Paris trip approached, one boy remembered, his friends "were, like, 'Yeah, I can't wait to go.'" Another said his girlfriend was "real excited--she talked about it for months." Only one voyager had second thoughts, telling a friend, "I'm too scared." In the end, she gathered...
When TWA Flight 800's passenger list was finally released, the grief it itemized was distributed evenly, with two exceptions: Stevenson, Alabama, which lost five citizens; and Montoursville. The French club sent 16 kids, ranging in age from 14 to 18, to fly to Paris, along with five adult chaperones...
Cameras could not penetrate the imagination either. "Did I know anyone on that flight?" "Maybe I'll cancel my trip to El Paso." "How exactly does one die in an airplane crash?" "How long are you conscious?" "They'll show the families soon. How will they bear it?" "We went...
From high above, the burning remnants of the crash looked like a city's lights at night, like the lights of Paris. At sea level they became a pulse of fire, lifted and lowered by the roll of the waves. The shape of the mile-long area of the fires...
But then the glaring sun disappeared over the shoulders of the trumpeters on the crest of the stadium, the countdown to the opening ceremony picked up steam (Athens 1896, Paris 1900...Barcelona 1992), and the show was under way. In moments the stadium found itself sheathed in fabric of the...