Word: plane
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After a month-long preseason slate that saw the Harvard softball team endure long plane flights, controversy over a newly-enforced pitching rule, and a 10-game losing streak, it’s finally time to really play ball...
However, using “Zane” has come back to bite me. Up until recently, my driver’s license said only “Henrietta Z. Wruble,” so using it as identification to fly created a mismatch with my plane tickets. Most airport employees realized that the unusual letter plus my utterly harmless appearance meant that I wasn’t worth harassing, but freshman year one ticket counter attendant decided to chew me out for it. After a short argument and her insistence that “the Z could stand...
...this, he answered, there is no easy response. He described one often-lamented instance of an American spy plane taking photographs of Auschwitz early in the war. Those photos, taken in hopes of locating factories rather than atrocities, went unnoticed. The line between knowledge and ignorance, then, was remarkably thin...
...released Friday placed Obama at Camp David until late Sunday afternoon. But on Saturday evening, the President traveled by helicopter to a closed hangar at Andrews Air Force Base, where Air Force One had been loaded with enough fuel for the 12 hour, 46 min. flight. The president's plane took off at 10:09 p.m., with the blinds drawn so as not to alert nearby residents...
...insure the secrecy of the trip, journalists were instructed to arrive at Andrews by approaching a closed side gate, where they were greeted by a Secret Service agent, casually dressed. Reporters forfeited their laptops and cell phones before boarding the plane. The equipment was returned about two hours into the flight...