Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Those Dirty Rats." It went off with a bright flash and a stunning roar just as Reuther stood up, with a dish in his hand, to get some fruit salad from the refrigerator. Glass tinkled, the dish flew into a thousand pieces. Reuther spun, staggered and fell to the floor like a man who had been clubbed. For a second there was no more sound. Mrs. Reuther stood transfixed. Reuther lay on his back, industriously trying to move his bloody right arm and deciding, with the casualness of shock, that it had been blown...
Last week Arab leaders flew to Amman, capital of Trans-Jordan, to talk to the one man most Arabs thought could save Palestine for them. King Abdullah said that he would lead his Arab Legion (10,000 men) and Syrian and Lebanese armies into Palestine by May 1. Said Jamal el Husseini, No. 2 man to Abdullah's old rival, the Mufti: "When we have won, the Legion will return across the border. Then we will hold a plebiscite to determine who will govern the new Palestine." Other Arabs were not so sure that, once he had taken...
...48th Bomb Group when he was shot down over France (the French underground rescued him and he was back in England three months later). Sy Bartlett, aide-de-camp to General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, was one of the first U.S. Air Forces men to arrive in England, flew on many a mission over Europe and later over Japan. Their book, for all its embarrassing concessions to scenario requirements, is an exciting, credible record of what was felt and endured by the first U.S. bomber crews to tangle with the Luftwaffe...
Commander Ronne flew 39,000 miles of mapping flights through air so pure that a pilot could see 200 miles ahead. His special trimetrogon cameras (three cameras working simultaneously) could snap horizon-to-horizon photographs every 20 seconds for the mapmakers. The photos would make it possible to chart the last unknown coastline in the world. With the explorer's prerogative, he named places for friends and colleagues: Edith Ronne Land for his wife, Isaiah Bowman Coast (for the geographer-president of Johns Hopkins), Lowell Thomas Mountains, Larry Gould Bay (for the explorer-president of Carleton College...
...flew to Berlin, where, still mystified by the charges against him, he said: "The Russian leaders first of all want to isolate their people from foreigners living in the Soviet Union . . . One way of doing this is to try to discredit the foreigners by making them appear evil people, degenerates or spies...