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John F. Kennedy Junior



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get to the bottom of something

Fig. to get an understanding of the causes of something. We must get to the bottom of this problem immediately. There is clearly something wrong here, and I want to get to the bottom of it.

See also: bottom, get, of

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.


get to the bottom of something

to discover the truth about something The electric company has not yet gotten to the bottom of why we had such a huge blackout.

See also: bottom, get, of

Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003. Reproduced with permission.


get to the bottom of something

to discover the truth about a situation (often + question word) The family finally got to the bottom of why their boy was killed. How will investigators get to the bottom of the affair with so little evidence?

See also: bottom, get, of

Cambridge Idioms Dictionary, 2nd ed. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006. Reproduced with permission.


get to the bottom of

Find the basic underlying quality or cause of something. For example, He was determined to get to the bottom of the problem. [Late 1700s] Also see at bottom.

See also: bottom, get, of

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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downward spiral

This term describes a depressive state where the person experiencing the downward spiral is getting more and more depressed, perhaps due to causes unknown. It is called a downward spiral because there is no way to stop it, its just going to get worse and worse... until the person crashes, and maybe finds their way back to happiness.

"I don't know what's causing it, but I just want to warn you that I'm on the downward spiral."
"seriously? I hope everything is ok."

or

"I hate my fucking job, my wife is cheating on me, and the only thing keeping me sane is my job with this new startup company that is slowly running out of money for us..."


Downward Spiral

1. When somebody goes into a downward state of depression and (maybe) finds their way back up.

2. A Nine Inch Nails album.

1. Ohh, man, i feel like shit today. I think i'm on the downward spiral.

2. I am a big man, yes I am, and i've got a big gun. Got me a big ol' dick and i, i like to have fun.



downward spiral

the term downward spiral is commonly used to describe depression and/or drug abuse, but can be applied to anything that starts out bad and just gets worse and worse and worse.

a downard spiral is illustrated in the book and movie Requiem For A Dream.

basic plot-

use a drug once
use it again
and again
and again
get an addiction
spend all your money on your addiction
start selling the drug to make money to pay for the addiction
use the drugs for yourself instead of selling them to pay for your own (why you should never sell the drug you do, if you sell at all)
fuck yerself over so badly you die, possibly from overdose, maybe you get shot by a drug dealer, maybe you kill yerself because you realize youve fucked your life over.

person1: i heard some girl died.. what happened?
person2: she was fine, then she got a crush on a guy who did drugs, so she started to do drugs, then became a junkie, then overdosed, and is now six feet under.
person1: oh, thats sad.
person2: just the typical downward spiral. happens all the time...
person1: ...that sucks.
person2: basically. lets go eat ice cream.
person1: deal.



Downward spiral

A state of continuous or coninthing depression that may or may never end

"Emperor Lemon has been on a downward spiral mentally, and now he's completely lost it." - Stuart "Keemstar" Reilly

by VD Peruvian October 22, 2016



downward spiral

Knudsen's finishing move during gay sex

Knudsen downward spiraled his gay lover.




Downward Spiral

one of the most evasive mushroom-cloud laying motherfuckers on Hobowars.

Downward Spiral is Betty's hero.


Downward Spiral

the act of falling from the top of the drinking world to be the sick drunk chick. Usually occurs when a chick tries to out drink a man. The chick will rapidly descend into a drunken mess.

Dude, Kelly totally tried to out drink me and I was no you fucking can't. Kelly totally hit the downward spiral after two shots.


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John F. Kennedy Jr. plane crash

Flying history
Kennedy began taking flying lessons at the Flight Safety Academy in Vero Beach, Florida.[37] In April 1998, he received his pilot's license, which he had dreamed about since he was a child.[31]

The death of his cousin Michael in a skiing accident brought about a change in Kennedy, making death "just seem closer and closer."[54] Kennedy felt so distressed that he took a hiatus from his piloting lessons at Flight Safety International in Florida for three months. His sister Caroline had hoped his decision to stop taking piloting lessons would be permanent, but when he resumed, she resigned herself to the "fact that she could do little to stop him."[55]

Death

Main article: John F. Kennedy Jr. plane crash

On July 16, 1999, Kennedy departed from Fairfield, New Jersey, at the controls of his Piper Saratoga light aircraft, carrying his wife Carolyn and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette, to attend the wedding of his cousin Rory Kennedy at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. He had purchased the plane on April 28, 1999, from Air Bound Aviation.[56] Carolyn and Lauren were sitting in the second row of seats.[57] Kennedy had checked in with the control tower at the Martha's Vineyard Airport but, when the plane failed to arrive, it was reported missing.[58]

Officials were not optimistic about finding survivors after aircraft debris and a black suitcase belonging to Bessette were recovered from the Atlantic Ocean.[59] President Bill Clinton gave his support to the Kennedy family during the search for the three ill-fated passengers.[59]

On July 18, a Coast Guard admiral declared an end to hope that Kennedy, his wife and her sister could be found alive.[60] On July 19, the fragments of Kennedy's plane were found by the NOAA vessel Rude using side-scan sonar. The next day, Navy divers descended into the 62 °F (17 °C) water. The divers found part of the shattered plane strewn over a broad area of seabed 120 feet (37 m) below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.[61] The search ended in the late afternoon of July 21, when the three bodies were recovered from the ocean floor by Navy divers and taken by motorcade to the county medical examiner's office.[62] The discovery was made from high-resolution images of the ocean bottom.[63] Divers found Carolyn and Lauren's bodies near the twisted and broken fuselage while Kennedy's body was still strapped into the pilot's seat.[58] Admiral Richard M. Larrabee of the Coast Guard said that all three bodies were "near and under" the fuselage, still strapped in.[64]

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the probable cause of the crash was pilot error: "Kennedy's failure to maintain control of the airplane during a descent over water at night, which was a result of spatial disorientation."[65]

On the evening of July 21, autopsies at the county medical examiner's office revealed that the crash victims had died upon impact. At the same time, the Kennedy and Bessette families announced their plans for memorial services.[62] On July 21, the three bodies were taken from Hyannis to Duxbury, where they were cremated in the Mayflower Cemetery crematorium.[66] Ted Kennedy favored a public service for John while Caroline Kennedy insisted on family privacy.[67] On the morning of July 22, their ashes were scattered at sea from the Navy destroyer USS Briscoe off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.[68]

A memorial service was held for Kennedy on July 23, 1999 at the Church of St. Thomas More, a church Kennedy had often attended with his mother and sister. The invitation-only service was attended by hundreds of mourners, including President Bill Clinton, who presented the family with photo albums of John and Carolyn on their visit to the White House from the previous year.[69]

Kennedy's last will and testament stipulated that his personal belongings, property, and holdings were to be "evenly distributed" among his sister Caroline Kennedy's three children, who were among fourteen beneficiaries in his will


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Graveyard spiral


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Graveyard spiral

In aviation, a graveyard spiral is a dangerous spiral dive entered into accidentally by a pilot who is not trained or not proficient in instrument flight when flying in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC).[1] Other names for this phenomenon include "suicide spiral", "deadly spiral", "death spiral" and "vicious spiral".[2]

Graveyard spirals are most common in nighttime or poor weather conditions where no horizon exists to provide visual correction for misleading inner-ear cues.[3] Graveyard spirals are the result of several sensory illusions in aviation which may occur in actual or simulated IMC, when the pilot experiences spatial disorientation and loses awareness of the aircraft's altitude. In other words, the pilot loses the ability to judge the orientation of his aircraft due to the brain’s misperception of spatial cues.

The graveyard spiral consists of both physiological and physical components. Mechanical failure is often a result but generally not a causal factor, as it is the pilot’s sense of equilibrium which leads to the spiral dive. Flying by "the seat of the pants", and failing to recognize and/or respond to instrument readings is the most common source of controlled flight into terrain where an airplane controlled by a pilot hits the ground.


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fly by the seat of one's pants

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fly by the seat of one's pants

1.(idiomatic) To pilot an aircraft without the aid of instruments and without a flight plan, using only instinct, visual observation, and practical judgment. ;

2.(idiomatic, by extension) To use one's judgment, initiative, and perceptions as events unfold in order to improvise a course of action without a predetermined plan.

Synonyms
(improvise a course of action without a predetermined plan): play by ear, wing it

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seat–of–the–pants
 
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Definition of seat–of–the–pants :
employing or based on personal experience, judgment, and effort rather than technological aids or formal theory

•seat–of–the–pants navigation •a seat–of–the–pants decision

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seat–of–the–pants
 
adjective
 
Definition of seat–of–the–pants for English Language Learners

done or made by using your own judgment and feelings without planning, preparation, or help from others