Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accepted it without comment, hurriedly wired the disputants a plea for an eleven-day postponement of the strike deadline (Sept. 14) until everyone could give the findings "the greatest weight and most earnest consideration." One by one steelmakers began agreeing to the truce. The auto workers' Walter Reuther flew to Pittsburgh to sit at the elbow of Phil Murray as the elderly labor chief sat down for a careful study of the report...
...Commodore also relayed a message from young (18) Briton Philip Mickman, who had unobtrusively swum the Channel two weeks before: "Head up, chin up, spit it out, beat Old Man Channel." Between wireless messages, the A.P. released carrier pigeons to fly bulletins to England. Unfortunately, the pigeons flew to France...
...Bellolampo raid caused shrieks of rage in the Italian press. Communist papers featured a Tass dispatch calling Giuliano the tool of imperialistic foreign elements who wished to make the island a base for military operations. Minister of Interior Mario Scelba flew to Palermo and cleaned out the whole Montelepre police command. Himself a Sicilian, Scelba began a wholesale transfer from Montelepre of native Sicilians...
...Cannes, while his great & good friend, Hollywood's Merle Oberon, 38, watched his private plane take off for Venice, wealthy Italian Count Giorgio Cini, 30, was killed in a crash when he flew low to buzz the airstrip. Cinemactress Oberon cried: "My life is finished. There's no point in going...
Golfer King, 33, who put out Turnesa, owns a 2,300-acre cattle and dairy ranch near Wichita Falls, Tex., is a deacon in the Baptist church, and describes himself as a "weekend" golfer. He flew his private plane to Rochester expecting to watch more golf than he played. Long before the finals, he was taking bismuth tablets to quiet the butterflies in his stomach. He had never been so close to a major golf title in his life, although he had accomplished the almost incredible feat of winning the Grand American trapshooting championship...