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...Nagumo's fleet reached the takeoff point, about 220 miles north of Pearl Harbor. The six carriers turned east into a brisk wind and increased speed to 24 knots. Nagumo's flagship was flying the celebrated Z pennant that Admiral Togo had flown at Tsushima in 1905. The flight decks tilted more than 10 degrees, and the wind whipped spray over them...
Japanese Lieut. Fusata Iida turned to strafe Sands, but the sailor fired another BAR clip, then ducked the bullets that pocked the armory's wall. As Iida's Zero climbed again, gasoline began streaming from his fuel tank. Before takeoff, Iida had said that any pilot whose engine failed should crash his plane into the enemy, so now he turned for a last attack. For one incredible minute, the two enemies faced and fired at each other, Iida from his crippled Zero, Sands with his BAR. Then the Zero nosed into a highway and smashed into pieces...
...takeoff year. It started as a political buzz word to describe the followers of Gary Hart and ended up as a catchall label for the Doonesbury generation...
...know. For most of the past decade she has chronicled her husband, their kids, her mother and grandmother in her New York Times columns. Three years ago, many of her pieces were collected in a book, accurately titled Living Out Loud. She tackles serious social issues, but her takeoff point is usually the kitchen...
...conflict has sent jet-fuel prices soaring and passenger travel plunging, creating brutal competition in the airline industry. Last week the big got bigger as American, United, Delta and Northwest all picked over the carcass of Eastern Air Lines. In a bankruptcy auction they divvied up 238 landing and takeoff slots, 48 boarding gates and four of the failed carrier's routes. The biggest winner: Delta, with 16 landing and takeoff slots, 21 boarding gates and three routes serving Canada for $157 million. The losers: small carriers such as America West, Midwest Express and Southwest, which bid but came...