Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...project was conceived in the late 1970s by John Langford, then a student at M.I.T. and now a researcher at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Alexandria, Va. His dream took the combined brains and brawn of 36 engineers, students, historians, physiologists and athletes -- and nearly three years -- to realize. Like the ultralight craft Gossamer Albatross, which crossed the English Channel in 1979, Daedalus uses human energy and a pair of pedals to drive its propellers. The craft was designed and constructed specifically to challenge Albatross's records for both duration (2 hr. 40 min.) and straight- line distance...
...never far from their laptop computers, which they plug into telephone jacks at least once a day to exchange missives with far-flung operatives or to read the latest word from their Washington offices. When a blizzard last month prevented Robert Dole from attending a town meeting in Alexandria, Minn., the Kansas Republican called the meeting hall from the telephone in his chartered jet and addressed the crowd by speakerphone...
...rare hour with Sam as we approached sundown and Alexandria: Nita had talked him into pulling off his shoes and lying down in a Pullman. "I don't golf, I don't fish. This is my recreation," he said. "I love it." He went into the offstage dealing you do to separate a candidate from the pack and make him a front runner, and if this were a political account we would put the tricks into the ledger. Moreover, on the next day, we would have a quiet hour with the candidate and find him an intelligent, well-intentioned...
...entered and left through the front door of the town house on two separate occasions on Saturday afternoon. During that period the Herald had as many as four reporters and a photographer watching both exits. Hart and his friends contend that they spent much of Saturday afternoon driving around Alexandria...
...Maltese Falcon. Among them: Sarkis Soghanalian, a 300-lb. Turkish-born Lebanese citizen living in Miami who specializes these days in selling helicopters to Iraq and is said to receive jars of severed human ears from clients; and Sam Cummings, a wisecracking American-born British subject operating out of Alexandria, Va., who is unabashedly -- though so far unsuccessfully -- negotiating to peddle on the world market some $5 billion worth of U.S. weapons left behind when America pulled out of Viet Nam. The most prominent of all, of course, is Adnan Khashoggi, the sybaritic Saudi Arabian whose jet planes, opulent yacht...