Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same day that they flew the Atlantic, hate-riddled Palestine erupted in the greatest violence, of deed and word, since U.N. voted to partition the country...
...this point, the hen flew its coop and in the meice the animals were judged or something, and the crowd surged out the door again. Half of them went down the steps, but a hardy few remained at the top to pelt the populace with a rain of snowballs...
...Zionists, watching the slow whittling away of U.S. support, flew to arms. The mistake was not in the partition plan, they cried, but in U.S. vacillation, which encouraged the Arabs to resist. They called for a repeal of the embargo on arms to the Middle East and for U.S. initiative in forming an international police force...
Through the first four gates she took a long chance - refusing to slow up for icy spots. She flew down the slope, zigzagging between the red and yellow flags that mark the gates, skidded once and almost missed a gate. Her first run was clocked in 59.7 seconds ; the second time, she cut two seconds off that. Thanks to Gretchen Fraser, the U.S. had won its first Olympic ski race in history. The same day, boyish Dick Button, 1 8, of Englewood, N.J., jumped and spun through his figure-skating routine to give the U.S. its second triumph...
Mickey Rooney, 27, flouted the show-must-go-on tradition in London, prematurely flew home after a painful smallpox vaccination...