Word: planing
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...love stories provoked.” Elsewhere, his reveries achieve an absolute stillness: “There was beauty to behold in the world, that was all there was to it: the summer night was cooled by the north wind blowing off the Bosphorus, rustling the leaves of the plane trees in the courtyard of the Tesvikiye Mosque, and causing them to whisper in that soft lovely way I remembered from my childhood.” “Museum” is a thick tome, but such prose feels as light as air. Indeed, the novel as a whole...
...typical, understated aviation lingo, the pilots of Northwest Airlines Flight 188 suffered a "loss of situational awareness" on Oct. 21 when their plane shot past its destination, Minneapolis, and continued flying for another 150 miles. After the flight from San Diego with 149 people aboard spent some 78 minutes out of contact with air-traffic control - a period that reportedly ended only when a concerned flight attendant contacted the pilots by intercom - the plane turned around over Wisconsin and landed safely. The pilots told authorities they were discussing "airline policy" during their odd detour, though many observers believe a more...
...different story last week when a plane chartered by British immigration officials landed at Baghdad International Airport with about 50 illegal Iraqi migrants from British deportation facilities. Armed Iraqi soldiers stormed the plane and ordered the officials to take the Iraqis back to Britain. British newspapers described the incident as a hugely expensive blunder. Nine of the men chose to stay in Baghdad voluntarily, while the rest were flown back to immigrant jails in Britain. One of the Iraqis aboard the plane told an Iraqi refugee organization that the soldiers had ordered the British officials to "go away...
...finished until the final whistle blows. Yale’s Kristin Forster managed to get a shot past Mann and it looked like the teams would be even again. But Kuzma, who is also a Crimson sports editor, slid into the net to stop the ball from crossing the plane into the goal...
...during a symposium ahead of the Oct. 14-18 fair, when the Chinese delegation walked out over the participation of Dai and the poet and critic Bei Ling. Under Chinese pressure, the event's organizers initially rescinded the writers' invitations. Dai, who is based in Beijing, said her official plane ticket had been canceled, but she was able to attend the fair as an unofficial guest after obtaining a visa through the sponsorship of the German branch of the PEN writers' association. (See pictures of modern China in the making...