Word: plucking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Connerly's life, a Horatio Alger tale of an orphan's adversity, pluck and triumph, has an almost mythical value to his supporters. He was born in Louisiana, where his parents divorced when he was two (he hasn't seen his father since) and his mother died when he was four, leaving him in the care of her sister and brother-in-law Bertha and James Louis. At six, he moved with them to Bremerton, Wash.--a journey made difficult by segregation laws that shut them out of hotels, rest rooms and diners--and later to Sacramento, where Connerly...
...Pittman was on hand to complete this cycle, along with masses of electronic equipment lugged by Sherpas, including a satellite phone with which she intended to file Internet dispatches from Camp Four, at 26,000 ft. Did she deserve to be mocked for her pretensions or admired for her pluck? (Pittman did reach the top, "short-roped" or dragged there by a Sherpa, and got back down, after collapsing and being revived by an emergency steroid injection...
...original "Du Bist Die Ruh," the piano keeps repeating a gently undulating phrase that is the ideal accompaniment for the song's simple melody. It is not a phrase for a harp to pluck--this "Ruh" was more irritating than peaceful. Baer seemed uncomfortable with the music being made around him, yet the strength of his voice did not waver. Like most people, he probably regretted Gillman's decision to end the song with a drum roll...
...much did they have to pay to get it, what did they get in return--it turns out that the most valuable scrap of information to have is a nine-digit number. That number is a ZIP code, one that tells the White House post office to pluck that letter from the 15,000 addressed to Bill Clinton every day and slip it directly under the President's door. The people who know the code are Clinton's oldest friends and earliest allies. Few of them followed him to Washington, and maybe that is why they are the people...
...windows on the top three or four floors and the whole building was engulfed in heavy smoke. Steel window frames on the top floor were bent by intense heat. Some people inside waved pieces of cloth through ventilation shafts, trying to alert rescuers. Two government helicopters were used to pluck people to safety...