Printer Friendly
The Free Library
14,558,602 articles and books
Member login
User name  
Password 
 
Join us Forgot password?

A turn for the worst.


More on that crash of Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle's plane into a New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 apartment building. It turns out that the plane was attempting to make a U-turn over the East River. The East River is just 2,100 feet wide at that point. How could the FAA allow such a tricky Adrian Thaws (born January 27, 1968), better known as Tricky, is an English rapper and musician important in the trip hop and British music scene (despite loathing the "trip hop" tag). He is noted for a whispering lyrical style that is half-rapped, half-sung.  maneuver maneuver /ma·neu·ver/ (mah-noo´ver) a skillful or dextrous method or procedure.

Bracht's maneuver  a method of extraction of the aftercoming head in breech presentation.
 to be made with those large buildings right next to the river? There was no room for anything to go wrong. As so often happens, something did go wrong. There was a crosswind cross·wind  
n.
A wind blowing at right angles to a given direction, as to an aircraft's line of flight.

Noun 1. crosswind - wind blowing across the path of a ship or aircraft
 that made it impossible for the small plane to complete the turn and blew it into the apartment building.
COPYRIGHT 2007 Washington Monthly Company
No portion of this article can be reproduced without the express written permission from the copyright holder.
Copyright 2007, Gale Group. All rights reserved. Gale Group is a Thomson Corporation Company.

 Reader Opinion

Title:

Comment:



 

Article Details
Printer friendly Cite/link Email Feedback
Title Annotation:Tilting at windmills
Author:Peters, Charles
Publication:Washington Monthly
Date:Jan 1, 2007
Words:105
Previous Article:On the plus side, the intelligence inside the Green Zone is superb.(Tilting at windmills)
Next Article:Food for thought.(Tilting at windmills)



Related Articles
Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
Welcome to Hooverville. (Letters).
Marrying Mohammed Atta. (Letters).
Feeding frenzy. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
Jilting at windmills.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
Better geriatric care isn't an 'impossible dream'.(PAUL WILLGING says ...)
Wind: a hard-blowing history.(wind power development)
Who's Bad?(Letter to the Editor)
Tilting at windmills: changing attitudes toward people with disabilities.
In defense of Wal-Mart.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)

Terms of use | Copyright © 2009 Farlex, Inc. | Feedback | For webmasters | Submit articles