Word: warthogs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Serengeti grassland system," and as one fellow steps into the open-air vehicle, he asks, "Is it air-conditioned?" No, mate, this is reality. Real crocodiles lazing primordially below that rickety bridge. Actual cheetahs motoring their stretch-limo bodies across the savanna. Genuine loamy smell over there near the warthog. (Hakuna matata, guys--it's only nature's perfume...
...exercise that left from Arizona's Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. He showed no signs of distress, signaled no one and failed to respond to a radio call from the lead aircraft on the mission. The missing plane, a heavily armored, low-and-slow-flying machine known as the Warthog, emitted no tracking pings because only the lead aircraft on an exercise uses its transponder. But Air Force officials have traced Button's flight 800 miles northeast from Arizona through a corner of northwestern New Mexico up toward Vail, Colorado, where he would have run out of fuel...
...journey, his disappearance has sparked some wild theories. Among them: that he was planning to drop the 500-lb. bombs he was carrying (which the Air Force believes were not armed) on the Denver courthouse where the Timothy McVeigh trial is under way; or that the rugged Warthog would be a perfect plane to sell to a militia unit. There were reports, on CNN and elsewhere, that Button may have been suicidal because he was upset over the recent conversion of his mother to the Jehovah's Witness faith, which espouses antiwar beliefs. But Button's father Richard, a veteran...
...that. Button's team was supposed to go to Arizona. And Button went to Colorado. Deliberately changing the flight plan gets you kicked out of the military very fast." Air Force officials say that the bombs were unlikely to explode on impact, and dismiss speculation that the plane, nicknamed Warthog, was sabotaged or stolen for its weaponry. "The Air Force, quite rightly, is refusing to voice questions about Button's record," says Thompson, "because if a pilot ever innocently found themselves in a situation like this, that pilot needs to know that the Air Force isn't back in Washington...
...bulimia. Nothing human was alien to him. But as he began the task of composing melodies to Tim Rice's words for the Disney animated adventure, John wondered whether he'd sunk too low. "I sat there with a line of lyrics that began, 'When I was a young warthog ... ' and I thought, 'Has it come to this...