Word: towered
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Bavis was a passenger onboard United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston to Los Angeles, which was hijacked Tuesday morning and steered into the second World Trade Center tower...
...moment the second plane was slamming into the south tower, President Bush was being introduced to the second-graders of Emma E. Booker Elementary in Sarasota, Fla. When he arrived at the school he had been whisked into a holding room: National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice needed to speak to him. But he soon appeared in the classroom and listened appreciatively as the children went through their reading drill. As he was getting ready to pose for pictures with the teachers and kids, chief of staff Andy Card entered the room, walked over to the President and whispered...
...brought to near perfection as a dramatic form. Never has the evil business had such production values. Normally, the audience sees only the smoking aftermath--the blown-up embassy, the ruined barracks, the ship with a blackened hole at the waterline. This time the first plane striking the first tower acted as a shill. It alerted the media, brought cameras to the scene so that they might be set up to record the vivid surreal bloom of the second strike ("Am I seeing this?") and then--could they be such engineering geniuses, so deft at demolition?--the catastrophic collapse...
...kind of event that is only possible in those awkward and wonderful days before classes begin. A beautiful late summer evening, together with the promise of some of the most engaging musical talent on campus drew people from all different houses. The whimsical green of the Eliot House tower was illuminated from behind the courtyard. Below it, part of the courtyard was illuminated from the ground by desk lamps borrowed from dorm rooms. The drum set was perched on picnic tables and an amp sat happily in a shopping cart, as Geoff S. Harcourt ’04, the lead...
...former government aviation official says the authorities must have been scrambling. "Coordinating a response to one airplane accident is daunting enough, I can't imagine anything like this." At approximately 9:37 am, controllers in the tower at Washington's National Airport likely used their secure hotline phone that reaches the Secret Service contact in charge of protection of the White House and informed them that an unidentified plane was hurtling towards the area. Usually, the calls come the other direction - from irate Secret Service agents complaining that this or that commercial flight took off too close to the White...