Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whimsy, round and jovial Bob (Robert J.) Casey, is no man to sit around waiting for strange and wonderful things to happen. Once, when he heard that a couple of scientists were to climb to a Grand Canyon plateau never before trod by man, he flew over it dropping old whiskey bottles and Ford parts for the amazed scientists to find. More recently, as a roving war correspondent, he has had no trouble finding stories worth reporting...
When the file slipped, flew up and pierced his eyeball, John Muir walked to the window while the milk-white aqueous fluid dripped out into his cupped hand...
...Pravda underlined the withdrawal from Iran of U.S. troops (which had been supplying Russia with Lend-Lease) by a blast against the Iranian Government. Farther east, the overheated Russo-Chinese relations promised to cool as, after a fortnight of negotiations in Moscow, China's Premier T. V. Soong flew east to Chungking, Generalissimo Joseph Stalin flew west to the Big Three conference in the ruins of Berlin (see INTERNATIONAL). But at week's end, the Chinese Communists seemed about to declare their independence of Chungking...
While Premier T. V. Soong flew back to Chungking from apparently fruitful talks with Generalissimo Joseph Stalin in Moscow, the Yenan radio broadcast startling news. Last week in Yenan 116 delegates from all the Communist areas of north, south and central China met in plenary session...
Death Revealed. Joseph Morton, 34. Associated Press correspondent; on Jan. 24 in a concentration camp at Mauthausen, Austria. Captured by the Germans last October when he flew into Slovakia with an Allied military mission, he was held for questioning, finally shot in the back-only war correspondent to be executed by the Nazis...