Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week a heavy-jowled, stocky general officer of the U.S. Army Air Forces flew the 100-odd miles back to his Guam headquarters from his B-29 bases at Saipan and Tinian. His aide, waiting with new orders, showed them to the boss. Major General Curtis Emerson LeMay read them without a flicker of expression. Said he, seeming scarcely to open his lips: "File them and we will move tomorrow...
...office in London (by far the largest maintained in Britain by any American publisher) must be a very different place to work these days than it was only a few months ago (maybe you'll remember the cable from Walter Graebner that began: "A buzzbomb just flew past our window, looked in, saw no crowd and proceeded up the street. Cor, if ever a man suffered . . ."). And before that, of course, there was the airblitz ("You're simply not one of the crowd unless a bomb has blown up in your garden...
Winston Churchill's trip home to get the bad news gave Harry Truman a respite from Potsdam conferences. One day last week he climbed into a plane and flew to Frankfurt am Main to pay a call on General Dwight Eisenhower, who took him for a 100-mile Rhine Valley tour...
...Churchill's state dinner both host and guests seemed notably cheerful. As he left Stalin shook Churchill's hand warmly, said: "We'll see you back here soon." Next day Churchill flew to England, heard the news. Stalin was the lone survivor of the original Big Three...
...London flew Prime Minister Winston Churchill, to give King George VI a firsthand report of the Big Three meeting. Then, back at No. 10 Downing Street, he waited for the election count. Next evening, when defeat was sure, he went back to Buckingham Palace to resign and hand over to the King the seals of office. His Majesty offered him the Order of the Garter. Churchill refused the dignity. An hour later he issued a statement...