Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back in 1980, a local real estate developer threatened to build a twin tower highrise on the University Green site until community activists and the city of Cambridge asked Harvard to acquire the property, Jacqueline A. O'Neill, associate vice president for community affairs said yesterday...
...Andrew Carter Thornton II, 40, snarled in a parachute. Along with 79 lbs. of cocaine, two pistols, knives and $4,500 in cash, Thornton carried night-vision goggles and wore a bulletproof vest. Police believe he had smuggled the drugs, with a value of $15 million, in a twin-engine Cessna. He put the plane on * automatic pilot and bailed out. At treetop level, his chute became fouled. Instead of landing upright, he hit the ground headfirst. The wrecked plane was found 70 miles away in North Carolina...
...controllers at Milwaukee's General Mitchell Field heard the chilling words a few seconds after takeoff. "I have an emergency," said Pilot Dan Martin of Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105. His twin-engine DC-9 was heading for Atlanta on a sunny afternoon with 27 passengers and a crew of four. That radio transmission proved to be Flight 105's last. About 1,000 ft. above the airport, one wing suddenly dipped. Later some witnesses said they heard an explosion. The plane dropped its nose and screamed toward the ground, crashing about a mile and a half from the airport...
...Flight KT 328 began shortly after 7:00 a.m. London time. As the 131 passengers settled back in their seats, many were probably thinking of their pending escape from England's blustery summer for the sunny Greek island of Corfu, the plane's destination. At 7:07, the twin-engine jet pulled away from the loading gate and taxied to the northeast end of runway...
into an inferno that kills 54. Twin scandals, one involving...