Word: straws
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marine pilots expected their Bell AH-1 Cobra to be running smoothly when they went to retrieve it. After all, the two-man gunship had been in the Fort Worth, Texas, factory nearly a year for a $1.8 million overhaul. But Major Michael Browne and 1st Lieut. Robert Straw found enough problems with the chopper to delay their departure a day. Then, 20 minutes after they took off in the late afternoon of May 23, 1997, they were killed when their aircraft plunged into a field 15 miles southeast of Dallas...
...quite believed what Janet Reno was saying. The Attorney General walked into the press conference on Friday, dressed in a straw yellow silk suit and pearls, and denied that she was furious at the FBI and its director, Louis Freeh. "You all are going to try your level best to make us enemies, but you're not going to succeed," Reno said, her face fixed in a thin smile...
...public has been enduring the Blair Witch Project with little comment, but seeing it on the cover of TIME is the last straw. If 81 minutes' worth of twigs and leaves is all that's required to create a successful blockbuster, we've solved the unemployment problem. MICHAEL VAN EESBEEK Windsor, Canada...
GARY BAUER Spins fourth-place finish in straw poll into a win for the little guy. Did voters confuse him with Eddie...
...Amount of roast pork Forbes bought to attract supporters during Iowa's straw poll...