Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away. A trail over the ice was blazed for them with flags and dye markers dropped from the plane. Five walked; the sixth, more badly hurt than the rest, was drawn on an improvised sled to the water's edge, where another flying boat picked them up and flew them back to the tender Pine Island. Among them was the Pine Island's commanding officer, Captain Henry H. Caldwell, who had gone along for the ride. Behind them on the icy waste they left the bodies of the first three known Americans to die on the Antarctic continent...
Last month Sir Sayed flew to London to present his case to Prime Minister Clement Attlee. In the British capital he attracted attention by carrying a lady's umbrella, established a reputation for generosity by tossing around ?100 tips. At No. 10 Downing Street, he talked loudly about Sudanese independence, but added that no one would mind if the British stayed for a while to teach the Sudanese how to run the country...
...product of the University School, Shaker Heights, Ohio, he played Freshman squash here in 1942 and captained the Freshman tennis team that year, During the war, Tufts flew dive bombers for the Marine Corps, attaining the rank of first lieutenant. He will graduate in June...
...modern affair-designed and owned by Neighbor Henry Varnum Poor, was a port of call for scores of flyers during the war. The tabletalk kept Caniff abreast of servicemen's slang; the grateful flyers paid their bread-&-butter calls by buzzing the house. As a favor, the Army flew him across the U.S. in a jolting 6-24, to give him the feel of it. He can "still hear the nyaaa-aaaa-aaaa of those motors-and feel the cold, going on hour after hour. Jeez, it was cold...
...Cellophaned dreams that had been projected for it. Almost everything that was made had a prewar look. Even the Air Age, which alone got a wing through the door, failed to come through. U.S. planes circled the globe-and brought back red ink for most of the companies that flew them. Typical of the year's disappointment were the millions of ball-point pens, all of which looked like the very latest thing, but many of which would not write...