Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After lunching with U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas, the Congressmen flew off to Berlin. From there, General Lucius Clay's special train for V.I.P.s trundled them to Essen, and a motorcade took them to Villa Hügel, the family mansion of the Krupps...
...Death. One night last week, the beleaguered students brought their band onto the roof to play the national anthem. Guadalupanos and spectators in the streets, including other school children, joined in the chorus: "We are free and shall be always." The cops started to clear the streets. Stones flew at them. Swinging sabers and tossing tear gas, the mounted police charged. After a few blocks they dismounted and fired into the retreating crowd. Fifteen-year-old Sophomore Heriberto Avellanada was dead with a bullet in his heart, and 19 others, including a few adults, were wounded...
...Canal Turned Pink. TIME Correspondent Robert Neville flew over the area last week, then talked with refugees and correspondents fleeing from the carnage. Neville cabled...
Between New York and Moscow, words like "slave" and "phony" flew back & forth. The New York Times's pugnacious managing editor and Sunday columnist, Edwin L. (for Leland) James, and the Communist Pravda's choleric co-editor, David losifovich Zaslavsky, were locked in battle...
...earth's magnetism happen to cross the parallels of latitude at the same angle as at State College. When he released the pigeons to the east of this "false home," they headed away from their Pennsylvania home. Thrown off their course by their navigating instruments, the pigeons all flew west. Professor Yeagley believes his experiment proves that pigeons are guided by both the earth's magnetism and by its turning...