Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starred flag of the President of the United States, redesigned by Harry Truman himself, flew at an unlikely place: the stubby mast of a Nazi submarine. The U-2513 was a U.S. prize from the surrendered German Navy, under study because of its revolutionary Schnorkel breathing device (TIME, Feb. 19, 1945). Now, with an all-American crew commanded by Lieut. Commander James Barr Casler, the U-boat was at Key West...
Back in Washington at week's end, the President plunged into a quick conference on the coal situation, was expected to stay desk-bound for a while. But to every body's surprise, he flew 1,890 miles in 8 hours, 49 minutes for a two-hour Sunday visit with his mother in Grandview, Mo., on the eve of her 94th birthday. He found her "just fine." Last week the President also...
Into Russia as magazine correspondents flew the Elliott Roosevelts, who got a royal* welcome in Moscow from the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS). Out of Mombasa, British East Africa, bound for New York, steamed a merchant ship captained by Jonathan M. Wainwright V, the General's son, whose charges included an ostrich, a wildcat, a ringtailed monkey, four pythons and six hyenas. Across the U.S. on a lecture tour streaked Randolph Churchill, who was having hair-raising luck. While he was doing 50 on an Indiana highway a wheel flew...
From the cloud's upper surface great pustules of vapor arose. Out of its base poured streamers of snow. They evaporated before they could reach the ground, but Schaefer flew back to Schenectady in triumph. He had touched off the first man-made snowstorm...
...been chosen this year to welcome 42-year-old Lily Pons back into the Met fold. She is still the most competent coloratura in the business, and the Met was ready to admit it, after trying to build up an unproved fledgling, 18-year-old Patrice Munsel while Lily flew off with her husband, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz, on U.S.O. tours...