Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night during the Quebec Conference, Jean Marie Rodrigue, Cardinal Villeneuve, Archbishop of Quebec, had dined with President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Thereupon he canceled a projected trip to Mexico. A big Lancaster bomber flew him from Montreal to Britain (it was the first plane trip of his 60 years and he loved it). In London he stayed in a darkly elegant house behind Westminster Cathedral as the guest of Archbishop Bernard Griffin, called briefly on Canadian High Commissioner Vincent Massey and other officials. He had an audience with King George...
...come home from the inferno and find a placid bunch of people who don't even know there's a war on. No bombers flew over us in a storm of death, chums. No snipers lurked at the corner of 3rd and Market; no ack-ack batteries picked us off in our penthouses. But that isn't our fault. It's a tribute to you. You kept us safe and we appreciate...
...July 11 -Mavis [a Japanese fighter plane] flew over . . . no see . . . left eye bad shape . . . still have water...
...down from the north to be chief of the capital's police and quell the rising opposition to war and Fascism. He had been a practising sadist. He had kept a private apartment where he personally tortured prize victims. He had been lame since the day a gnat flew into his eye as he raced northward in an open car to escape the Allies. The car had swerved into a ditch. Caruso broke...
...favorite hunting ground was the Truk lagoon, where he habitually flew through a storm of flak at 50 ft. in order to bomb and strafe Jap ships...