Word: wings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What happened next came so swiftly that people watching from the ground disagreed on the exact sequence. But as best their stories could be pieced together, the Boeing 737-300's two jet engines spooled down, and smoke trailed from the one on the left wing. The plane rolled belly-up, banked and fell nose first, almost vertically, through 6,000 ft. of sky. Witnesses could not agree whether it exploded before it plowed into a hillside or on impact...
Will the President's house ever be safe? Less than a week after a plane crashed onto the White House lawn, three fire trucks raced to the mansion early this afternoon to investigate smoke in the West Wing, safely away from the room where President Clinton was meeting with exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Verdict: "A light fixture shorted out, and there was a strong odor," said press secretary Dee Dee Myers...
...years that have intervened between his first and second speeches at the sight have seen the issue of family values move from the exclusive province of the right wing to a place squarely in the center of the American political scene. Listen to Jesse Jackson. Listen to Marian Wright Edelman. These pillars of the Left now make speeches that are in many ways indistinguishable--in substance, if not style--from those of Quayle and William Bennett, perhaps the leading commentator on the American crisis of values...
...than 3,000 people since 1969. Skeptics, remembering two previous cease- fires that unraveled in violence, noted that the I.R.A. has neither handed over its enormous cache of weapons nor specifically declared the cease-fire to be permanent. London and Dublin declared last December that the I.R.A.'s political wing, Sinn Fein, can join talks on Northern Ireland's future only when a permanent cease-fire has held for three months. Said British Prime Minister John Major last week: "The moment I am clear in my mind that this is a permanent end to violence, then the clock starts ticking...
...biography of Socialist French President Francois Mitterrand has revealed new information of Mitterrand's youthful extreme right-wing sympathies and later his role in the collaborationist Vichy government in World War II. Une Jeunesse Francaise (A French Youth), by journalist Pierre Pean, was written with Mitterrand's cooperation and depicts Mitterrand as a young nationalist with sympathies for fascist regimes and later, as an ambitious official in Vichy. The book also says Mitterrand joined the Resistance only in 1943, later than he has previously claimed...