Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hochman said she and her twin sister, Yale senior Dalia Y. Hochman, who also won the award, applied "as a joke...
...thought the novelty of a Harvard-Yale twin pair helped her win the award...
...think the magazine really liked the twin aspect," said Hochman, who is a social studies concentrator and an Adams House resident...
Browne and Straw, with 2,500 hrs. of flawless flying between them, spent the final seconds of their life steering their Cobra away from a school as its twin engines sputtered, slowing its rotor blades nearly to a halt. Upon impact, the aircraft exploded into a 1,500[degree]F fireball, fed by 300 gal. of jet fuel. The conflagration destroyed the helicopter, making it impossible to determine the cause of the crash...
However, the city's designation by Herb Caen--whether based on alliteration or resemblance--as some twin of Baghdad made me think what a contrast the real Baghdad would make: war-torn, military in the streets, the sounds of commerce subdued and conviviality scarce. Occasionally an American warplane must skirt by, but the pervading reality must be silence, for what else could be the sound of a people abandoned...