Word: plane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...halls when the relevant provision was adopted by a vote of 286 to 98. Opponents claimed that it could lead to the defunding of government functions merely because House staffers were caught with drugs. But why not? When it comes to confiscation, everyone is in the same boat -- or plane. If a joint were discovered aboard the Queen Elizabeth II, says Michael Fleming, spokesman for the Customs Service in Los Angeles, "Technically, we may have the authority to seize...
...spotted winging toward Alaska's southwest coast. Two F-15 interceptors scrambled to put a "cap" on top of the aircraft, until the bombers turned back 115 miles from U.S. territory. On May Day, two high-flying Bears closed to within 50 miles of Alaska; then an AWACS surveillance plane picked up two more Soviet bombers coming in low to avoid ground radar. Air Force fighters quickly capped those planes as well...
...ghostly spirit remained, an unearthly presence some-how connected psychically through ethereal vibrations produced by my callous dismissal of Harvard's financial needs. Almost as though a portal to the next world had somehow been wrenched open, permitting the spirits of the dead to pass through to this plane of existence. Somewhere, lightning crashed...
...took it and took it. Now he's taking a plane to upstate New York...
...doing so is not an abridgement of anything. If I choose to walk on my tiptoes, I do so by choice. And if it does not hurt anyone around me, despite how tired I might get and how stupid I might look, it is my choice. Perhaps in another plane of existence, vaguely familiar to our own, one might hear a certain dean being appalled at the farcical practice of "punching" as an abridgement of human dignity...