Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in the '20s, he mushed off on North Pole expeditions (he is called "Ange-kok," Miracle Worker, by the Eskimos); searched for pirates' gold on a Pacific island; sleuthed for old bones around Lake Superior; flew his own glider; raced his bouncing outboard down the Hudson; mined gold in Mexico. In his spare time, aboard his 185-ft. yacht, Mizpah, he held parties that rattled Chicago tongues...
...Homma, who flew from Tokyo as a character witness for her husband, described him to reporters as a bookish poet, "kind and considerate to his wife, servants and children." He dabbled in Chinese poetry, liked "serious literature," was especially fond of Galsworthy and Shaw. His favorite English-language novel: Gone With the Wind. (Army Intelligence said that he read a chapter nightly on Bataan before retiring, asked Tokyo to rush him the movie "when the Japanese land in California...
...three minutes France's uneasy unity flew apart. President Charles de Gaulle summoned his ministers to the presidential offices in the dingy old War Ministry building in the Rue St. Dominique. Said he: "I have had enough. I do not want to assume direction of a Government in which political parties or groups do not cease to attack me." Then his long legs carried him from the room, past saluting sentries, to his car which drove him to suburban Neuilly. There, like any good bourgeois, Charles de Gaulle had a hearty Sunday dinner before going for a drive...
What manner of man was this, who could convince people that his will was God's, even in the most mundane matters, even when it flew in the face of a frontier civilization's deep-dyed Puritan morality? Was he shameless fraud or true prophet? In Mrs. Brodie's well-documented version, he held something of both...
...Japs had a long, skinny, twin-engine reconnaissance plane which could have taken off from Tokyo, scouted the U.S. West Coast from Vancouver to Los Angeles and got home again. So say the Japs. Early in July 1944, they claim, their A26 flew a record-breaking 10,160 miles nonstop in 57 hours, over a closed course* in Manchuria, and landed with enough fuel for another 1,870 miles...