Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk with President Eisenhower, Rockefeller was warmly greeted, talked more about civil defense, but neither expected nor got any presidential endorsement. Later in the week, he flew off to his son's wedding in Norway (see FOREIGN NEWS), where there are no New Hampshire primary votes, but where the citizens responded enthusiastically to the personal appeal that makes Nelson Rockefeller such a formidable presidential hopeful...
...described her to reporters as "wonderful." Next came Steven's brothers: Michael, a student at Harvard, and Credit Analyst Rodman and his wife Barbara, who were the only passengers on the chartered KLM plane that brought them from New York. At week's end Governor Nelson Rockefeller flew in with the rest of the family: Steven's two sisters, Mary. 21, Michael's twin and a student at Vassar, and Ann, 25, the wife of Episcopal Clergyman Robert L. Pierson. None of Steven's 17 first cousins (the children of Laurance, Winthrop, Abby, John...
...looked up to see the mushroom cloud," said Hotelman Paul Ryan. Instead he saw a 300-ft. pillar of flame. One squad car flew 100 ft., its dome light and driver cop left largely undamaged. Across the street from the truck, the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. fell into a level pile of rubble. The Gerretsen store's stock of bolts and nuts sprayed like fragmentation shards. One eight-year-old boy was carried to the hospital with a finger-sized piece of steel driven into his brain. The only traces to be found of Traffic Policeman DeSues were...
...renaissance. His publisher brought out a 33-volume jubilee edition of his works; the literary magazine Vinduet published a special Hamsun number; the Oslo university library opened an exhibit of Hamsun letters and manuscripts; Oslo theaters scheduled revivals of Hamsun's dramas. On the anniversary day, three flags flew-at Hamsun's farm, at the university, at the publisher's office...
There was tall, lithe Miro Slovak, a onetime pilot for the Red-run Czechoslovakian Airlines, who hit the headlines in 1953 when he commandeered a C-47 and flew to asylum in West Germany. Between races, Slovak is now a crop duster. And there was Bill Muncey, 30, onetime professional hockey player. In 1955 Muncey was so infuriated when officials gave the Gold Cup race to Detroit's Gale V, after he had apparently won it for Seattle in Miss Thriftway, that he moved forthwith to Seattle. He won the Gold Cup for Seattle in both...