Word: set
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...set in New York around 8:25; the plane took off at 8:38, a Piper Saratoga large enough for six people but carrying only three. It turned north, then east, as the temperature began to dip and the haze thickened around the islands and fingers of Massachusetts. The flight was supposed to take a little more than an hour...
...washbasin, his hands clutching the sides, his head bowed... I never expect, for the rest of my life, to see more agony on anyone's face." Ted had already grown weary of politics and was emotionally spent. He confided to a friend that what he really wanted was to set sail around the Caribbean with his family and enjoy life, a fantasy Jack used to have. Close friends started to question his emotional state, watching his mood swings and his distracted conversations. More and more people began talking about his drinking habits, predicting that his love of the fast life...
...such a sustained, gaudily heartbreaking role in America's fantasy life--the longest-running political soap. Eventually--after the LIFE magazine spreads that spun Old Joe's golden children into myth in the '40s and '50s, after Dallas and the keening over Camelot and after Bobby--at last there set in the disillusioned revisionism: all the dark-side stories about Jack's satyriasis and the loathsome way the brothers treated Marilyn. And the myth developed a twin, an antimyth of cheap fraud, of a tribe of photogenic hustlers...
Wodja was identified by the victim, and is being held in lieu of $25,000 cash bail. He is set to appear in court on August 13, for a probable cause hearing...
From the backseat of the Freeway I thought of Kid Driver--would he get back to Hamilton this afternoon and get to his job? I would. Maybe the surf on Manu Bay would keep him in Raglan and he'd blow off Pak N' Save for the set of waves that he'd come looking for. I hoped...