Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snap the scene from a distance of 25 ft. saw Mr. Truman chopping the air with his hands as he talked. Forrestal, it was announced later, had simply reported on a recent six-day trip he had taken to Europe. The interview lasted a scant 45 minutes and Forrestal flew home again...
This week the vacation ended. Harry Truman climbed into the presidential plane, the Independence, and flew back to Washington to take up residence in Blair House until the sagging White House, across the street, has been repaired (TIME...
...first business on his agenda was a talk with George Marshall, who arrived by plane from Paris the next day. The Secretary's plane had to circle over National Airport for half an hour, as it had the last time Marshall flew in, waiting for Mr. Truman to arrive by limousine. The President, grinning broadly, greeted Marshall and Mrs. Marshall in a downpour of rain...
...left Seattle's Broadway High School after three years to drive a laundry truck. During World War I he joined the Navy, was sent to Killingholme, England as a machinist's mate, and flew over the North Sea in lumbering Curtiss flying boats on anti-Zeppelin patrols. Travel fanned his ambition...
...Harvard Band came over during the half and blew in his car and then there was that damn turkey. A couple of guys, Harvard cheerleaders by the looks of them, brought this tough old bird over to do combat. But Dan wasn't having any, not with something that flew and pecked and scratched. He showed the turkey his rear and made it very plan he wanted to be left alone. After the game, when the noise really started, Dan made a boe-line for New Haven where a man can be among friends when he's feeling blue...