Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liberian Army officers persuaded their bibulous countrymen to disperse. Now the U.S. Army has more than doubled the Roberts Field garrison-it flew in 13 more G.I.s from the occupation forces in Germany...
...show what his gadget can do, President Howard Hughes of Hughes Aircraft loaded a Lockheed Constellation last week with newsmen and headed out over the Pacific near Los Angeles. He flew west until he was opposite the steep mountains beyond Santa Monica, which have reached for many an airplane through California fog. Turning inland, Hughes flew the plane directly toward the highest peak. The bell rang and the light flashed as soon as the radar "cat's whiskers" brushed the rising ground...
...story like that was too good to leave in the hands of Havana's 22 dailies, so a covey of U.S. newsmen flew in to take over. When Satira was taken aboard the yacht to "reenact" the shooting (before a perspiring judge and a mob of curious...
...Editor & Publisher statement flew in the face of the Guild constitution, which protects newsmen from being barred from Guild membership "by reasons of sex, race, or religious or political convictions." The Congress statement made a lot of good Guildsmen think that talkative Milt Murray was talking out of turn. It brought angry denials from Los Angeles and New York, and rebukes from five other strong locals. Said the Executive Board of the St. Louis local: "... A deliberate and calculated campaign to undermine the responsible position which the Guild now occupies...
...down against a rock. Then one of them drew out "a long, thin, double-edged butcher's knife, held it up and tested the cutting edge in the moonlight. . . . With a flicker as of a light going up, the casements of a window [in the house] suddenly flew open; a human figure, faint and insubstantial, at that distance and at that height, leaned abruptly far forward and stretched both arms still farther. Who was it? A friend? A good man? Someone who sympathized? Someone who wanted to help? . . . Was help at hand? . . . Where was the Judge whom...