Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heads the Far-Eastern edition we print each week in Manila) had entered Tokyo a week ahead of our troops. His arrival on the electric train from Yokohama was prosaic enough, but a few days before the Japanese shore batteries had fired on the plane in which he flew up from Okinawa to be among the first Americans landed in Japan...
Harry Truman flew back from a weekend in Independence, Mo., to try to straighten things out. He already had a hint-in the Senate Finance Committee's rejection of his proposal to raise unemployment compensation to $25 a week for 26 weeks-of how basic was the conflict...
Round the head of young King Michael swirled a political blizzard. Angry worlds, which freely bandied his royal name, flew back & forth. The disputants were the Big Three...
...grey New York Times, which prides itself on printing the news (if it's fit and proper) at full length, last week did it again.* It published the entire 130,000 words of the Army & Navy's Pearl Harbor reports. It was quite a job. The Times flew the texts up from Washington, piled up 80 hours of printers' overtime in setting it, tossed out four pages of advertising, dipped into its paper rations to boost its average midweek 155 columns of news to 283 columns, and hit the streets with the full text seven...
...eared Bill Talbert, unbeaten in nine tune-up tournaments, admitted that his game was better than ever; the 64th United States Lawn Tennis Champion ships looked like a breeze. Then Sergeant Frank Parker flew in from Guam, 10 lbs. thinner and fitter, razor-sharp from Marianas matches with Wayne Sabin, Don Budge and Bobby Riggs. Said Singles Champion Parker: "My game is better than ever...