Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rumors flew fast and wild. Was it a subterranean eruption fouling the Gulf with sulphurous poisons? Darling examined samples of the water under a low-powered microscope. He reported that the water seemed full of "waltzing mice": thousands of fast-moving organisms which "seem to accomplish their swimming by a whirling motion." He made sketches and sent them to Washington...
Fortnight ago, in one of the first books to be published by one of Britain's service chiefs (Bomber Offensive; Collins, Lon don), the pink-mustached, apoplectic "Bomber" flew back over his career, then scattered some incendiaries closer to home...
...middle-aged "sun goddess," 45-year-old Yoshika Nagaoka. During the war she had counseled many Japanese generals; now, as "Jiko-san" (Divine Light), she got financial support from Japanese aristocrats and militarists, averaged $16,000 a month in contributions. Over her temple in Kanazawa, Jiko-san flew the red "meatball" flag of Imperial Japan; to her followers she restated the basic State Shinto principles of hakko ichi-u-the whole world under Japan's Emperor. Jiko-san had included General Douglas MacArthur and Generalissimo Joseph Stalin in her cabinet of lesser deities...
...Chilean peso is worth 4?. A smart operator once bought a 30,000 peso stack, of chips (worth $1,200) at Viña, flew to Montevideo where a casino used identical chips, cashed them for 30,000 Uruguayan pesos-worth...
...flew here [Houston, Tex.] from New Orleans in an hour and a half, but we might as well have crossed into another country as indeed it was less than 100 years ago. Gone were the French physiognomies, gone were the narrow, one-way streets. People walk twice as fast...