Word: planes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aunt saw me yawn. "Sleepy? The plane ride from Beijing must have been so tiring. Lay down in my lap." I hesitated. She leaned over and pushed my head into her lap. It wasn't very comfortable. When my cheek could no longer stand the rough polyester of her slacks and a crick developed in my neck, I tried to sit up. But my aunt forced my head back down. I gave up. As I "slept," I suddenly heard retching noises in front and behind me. I sat up. Li Mei and Li Peng were holding smalll plastic bags...
Just as the entire family made the two and half hour journey to pick me up, so everyone, despite motion sickness, sent me to the airport. Though they could not go with me to the waiting-room for passengers, they said they would wait until they were sure my plane had taken off safely for Hong Kong. My aunt had a cousin who worked with the airport police and arranged it so that they could bid me a last good bye on my way to the plane. As I emerged from the waiting room and onto the tarmac, they were...
Warren's involvement with the atomic-plane project likely concerned radiation containment, his area of expertise...
Gilbert F. Whittemore, who is writing a book on the atomic-powered plane project, says Warren was well aware of the ethical concerns of the time...
...total, for little more than a twin- engine Piper Seminole airplane that was later sold for a loss of $13,000. That loss was absorbed by Madison Guaranty's depositors, but federal taxpayers eventually had to pick up the tab through the RTC. Another intriguing factor is that the plane was at one point owned by Seth Ward, the father-in-law of Webster Hubbell, then a law partner of Hillary's and now Reno's top deputy at the Justice Department. McDougal sold Ward the plane, and his S&L loaned him the money for the purchase, Ward told...