Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shooting quail or otherwise being out of touch during foreign and domestic crises. And there, for the first time, the crowd booed the President's name when Stevenson referred' to him as an honorable if misguided man ("Oh, he is an honorable man, my friends"). When Adlai flew out of Los Angeles for Phoenix, Ariz, (where a crowd of 1,500 waited until 2 a.m. to greet him at the airport), he left behind him a California Democratic organization crowing that he had a real chance to carry the state...
...spoke m Houston's Music Hall to a crowd that filled fewer than two-thirds of the 4,000 seats. But the Vice President listened as he talked, looked as he was looked at, and recommended that the G.O.P. make a real Texas try. During the campaign he flew 800 miles across the state, speaking to ever more enthusiastic crowds at Fort Worth, San Antonio and El Paso. On his recommendation, Dwight Eisenhower added Dallas to the presidential schedule. This week, as Nixon had hoped and expected, Texas was a real political battleground, and the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket...
Students and workers had been tearing the Soviet emblem from national flags, pulling down illuminated Red stars from public buildings, distributing mimeographed resolutions and broadsheets. But their mood became ugly when the news flew around that Party Leader Erno Gero, back from Belgrade, had spoken on Radio Budapest condemning the demonstration and calling their demands for more freedom "reactionary provocation...
...flew back three weeks ago to supervise the election. Scarcely a ballot box was left unstuffed, or an oppositionist unintimidated in Lozano's electoral effort. For what it was worth, he won. But when his cops topped off the fraud by shooting into a crowd of demonstrators on Election Day, Lozano's number was up. With the gentle air of friends who know what is best, the general, the colonel and the major eased him out. Said the junta: "We intend to govern democratically." It was the 13 5th revolution in Honduras' history-and the first military...
...ground. Caught in China's civil war, it was the world's most shot-at airline, struggled to stay aloft as a civilian support organization for the retreating Nationalists armies. Profits were nonexist ent, payrolls tough to meet. But between 1946 and 1948, CAT flew the Nationalists out of some 72 threatened bases, in one operation evacuated 30,000 wounded soldiers from Manchuria ahead of the advancing Reds...