Word: planes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...failing to celebrate and truly understand Los Angeles' distinctiveness, Easterners are failing to embrace their future. For a sneak preview, hop on a plane to California...
...Navy had always stood by Hultgreen's ability. She even convinced those who very nervous about allowing women to fly in combat. "We were a little apprehensive at first about women driving the plane, but she got hold of that thing and knew what she was doing," her training squadron commander, Capt. Tom Sobieck, told the New York Times. When given the same training and subjected to the same standards as men, women compete on an equal level. If women are subject to the same standards as men, as Shannon Faulkner was in her original Citadel application (when...
...next two years, he remembers, some 15 to 20 prisoners were trucked every Wednesday to the Buenos Aires airport, put on a military plane, and then dropped, drugged but alive, from a height of about 13,000 ft. into the Atlantic Ocean...
...identifies the offending country, the military service, the plane, even the bomb ("given the name 'Little Boy' by the B-29's crew" [sic]). It notes additionally that among the dead at Nagasaki "were people from many other countries, such as Korea, China, Russia, Indonesia and the United States." These are about the only historical facts in a story otherwise devoted to burning flesh and dying babies as seen through the eyes of a seven-year-old girl...
Terrell McSweeny '97 says she "comes from a good Irish family with all sorts of rules about spilled salts." Her family wards off plane crashes with a superstition inherited from one of her father's war buddies. Sitting on an airplane before take-off, McSweeney recites a line modified from the Song of Solomon, "Arise, my love, and fly again." As a child, her whole family would link hands and say this; now she mutters it under her breath when she flies alone. "I think it's embarrassing every now and again," she admits, but adds that she would...