Word: dived
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, despite this auspicious beginning, the quality of our evening quickly took a nose-dive. After the aforementioned cranberry cocktail kicked in, I found myself wandering around Cambridge Commons belting out "Sweet Caroline," while Josh had to return to The Crimson where he was ultimately trampled by HUPD SWAT as they broke up a party. Meanwhile, the FMers capped off their evening sipping sherry in J.P. s newly installed terrace Jacuzzi...
...loss of Clemente could not have come at a worse time for the Crimson. After starting the year at a perfect 3-0 clip, the Crimson has taken a nose-dive in the past two weeks, losing four straight. Moreover, in its last two contests, Harvard has scored its two lowest point totals of the year...
...Atlantic toward Cairo. At that moment, two distinct clicks of a button on the control yoke disconnect the autopilot guiding the plane. Eight seconds later, the control yoke is pushed forward, tipping the tail up, pitching the nose down, and the aircraft tilts into a precipitous but controlled dive. Fourteen seconds later, the aircraft reaches 90% of the speed of sound and zero gravity--weightlessness--as it plummets through the night...
...cockpit door opens again. The master alarms start to whoop. A voice demands, "What's going on?" or "What's happening?" Then the same voice urges, "Pull with me! Pull with me!" Twenty-seven seconds into the dive, the horizontal elevators on the tail that normally operate in tandem to stabilize the aircraft wrench in opposite directions: the left side pulls to make the plane climb, the right one pushes to keep it in a dive. Gravity and the two powerful Pratt & Whitney engines on the Boeing 767 continue to force the plane down. A second later, a small shield...
...black boxes, then synchronized with ground-control radar tracks, are all the "facts" investigators have so far to construct a picture of what happened to Flight 990. But do they add up to the terrible possibility that one of the pilots deliberately sent the plane into its death dive, committing an unspeakable act of self-destruction and mass murder...