Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he got a call one day last week that his 94-year-old mother was gravely ill, Harry Truman hopped into the presidential plane and flew to her home in Grandview, Mo. It was his fifth visit with her since she had broken her hip in a fall last February. This week, as she wavered, he was at her side...
...victorious driver saw it all. He turned back, headed for the Oldsmobile and hit it a great side-swiping blow. The Olds caromed off the curbing. Two tires flew into the air. Proud as a victorious fighter pilot, the little man tooted his horn and drove away...
From Capri, he flew to Lisbon and back to the U.S. Last week, he was home again in San Francisco.The five weeks in Europe had cost him exactly $300, plus $1,052 in plane fares. On a vacation that had completely missed Europe's hunger, he had only one bit of financial hard luck: he lost 12,000 black-market francs on roulette at Monte Carlo...
...this point there was plenty of time to avoid the mountains by an easy, gentle climb. But to show the wide margin of safety, Hughes flew the great plane into a steep-sided valley with mountains all around. At last he remarked calmly: "Now we'll take evasive action." The ship roared up in a steep, climbing turn to clear the rocks...
...Navy took him up in a plane to do 17 pictures of the Navy's blimps in action. For weeks, he painted nothing but blimps: in hangars, on submarine patrol, against the sunset. Standard Oil (N.J.) flew him to Venezuela to paint oil wells. The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad put him on a private car ("You should have seen those huge bedrooms, with big brass beds in them") to picture the West Virginia countryside...