Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Tydings, amply supplied with sun helmets and summer khaki, had been expected to stay four weeks. When he suddenly left Manila, rumors flew through the capital that he had ducked out to avoid the sticky political situation developing in the Islands. At home, Senator Tydings said he had come back solely to speed up U.S. aid to the Islands. He had been shocked by their war damage, and was aghast at their economic prostration...
...filthy, ancient city shook as shell after shell poured into some of the most congested areas on earth. Hundreds of Arab dead lay in the bazaars and narrow streets. Shells hit the overstaffed Russian legation, the Syrian Parliament building, the plush Orient Palace Hotel. A U.S.-built Baltimore bomber flew overhead, dropped a few bombs. After the Senegalese had done their work with machineguns and mortars, they pillaged the shops and bazaars, taking radios, scarce food and scarcer clothing...
Pride and Frustration. Then the British moved in. They cut French General Oliva Roget's line of communication with his base at Beirut. Into Damascus clanked a column of Sherman tanks on which Union Jacks had been freshly painted. Up from Cairo flew General Sir Bernard Paget, British commander in chief in the Middle East, who had several hundred thousand men on call. Paget ordered Roget to "cease fire." The Frenchman said that he would not take orders from a Britisher. Paget suggested that Roget call his French superior, General Humbolt, at Beirut. Roget pointed out that the British...
...Pacific is no longer the same ocean. Its blueness and its vastness remain, but all else is changed since that hazy, calm September dawn in 1943 when the new Hellcat fighters flew against Marcus Island from the new Essex-and Independence-class carriers in their first combat mission...
Wedemeyer and his staff have received unprecedented cooperation from the Generalissimo. From the beginning, Chiang appreciated Wedemeyer's cordiality, recognized his brilliance. When the American, in a daring battle maneuver last fall, flew crack Chinese units from Burma* and the Chinese Communist border region (with Chiang's assent) to stop the Japanese advance in Kweichow, Chiang's opinion was confirmed. How well Lieut. General Wedemeyer has succeeded in the diplomatic part of his job was indicated last week when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek accepted an invitation to be Wedemeyer's guest at supper. Not since...