Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Paris-Presse: "What human voice could speak in that titanic decor as the images flew! After the showing, the delegates returned to Luxembourg Palace, where fragile peace struggles to be born. . . ." The Paris-Matin: "We can't keep ourselves from, thinking of the Apocalypse. It is overwhelming. . . The delegates, despite their diplomatic lack of reaction, were overwhelmed...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower flew north from Brazil trailing clouds of exaltation and exhaustion. In Rio the fancy hails & farewells (variously involving champagne toasts, oratory, autographs, roast pig and avocado ice cream) had reached their fanciest in the Constituent Assembly. There, while fellow legislators cheered, Dr. Octavio Mangabeira polished off an oratorical tribute by kissing Ike's hand. Next day one legislator dared to deplore the gesture, promptly threw the assembly into a shocked uproar. Finally, the members took a vote, approved Dr. Mangabeira's "exceptional eloquence" unanimously-even including the objector...
Boarding Party. Nevertheless the Ranger put aboard a crew that outnumbered the British party, got the engine started, cast off the British towlines, lowered the British flag, restored the Stars and Stripes, and ordered the British off the ship. They got off. According to an R.A.F. pilot who flew over the scene, "it looked like a hell of a battle going on down there." But the Elizabete's second officer said later that there were "only black looks and curses...
Then one day in April, 1945, when he was on vacation, Washington called him long distance to tell him that Roosevelt had died. George flew east. Harry Truman's amanuensis Matt Connelly met him and exclaimed: "Good God, George. We've got three speeches to write. We have to go before Congress tomorrow...
...million over the same period last year; the wheat crop, six million tons, was four-fifths of the prewar average. The 1946 raw silk estimate was the highest in history. Even inventors were busy: in Milan last week an auto-plane rolled at 40 m.p.h. on a highway, then flew...