Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inexperienced newcomers wasted long hours arguing about whether they or the Republicans had got stuck with the sunniest seats in the legislative chambers, once flew off to the Big Island to watch an eruption along the slopes of Mauna Loa. While the Democrats fiddled, crusty, Eisenhower-appointed Territorial Governor Sam Wilder King sat back and waited for them to run out of time. On the 50th day of the prescribed, 60-day 1955 session, Sam King vetoed the only two Democratic bills. This so disorganized the bewildered Democrats that they squabbled along to the end of the session...
...Reason Why. Having planted the notion of free and peaceful interchange in at least a few Siberian minds, Nixon, tired but still eager, flew back to Moscow to deliver his farewell speech on radio and TV. While Nixon .was busy writing hi's script, Nikita Khrushchev, just back himself from a trip to the Ukraine, showed up unexpectedly at Moscow Airport to inspect the two Boeing 707 jets waiting to take the Nixon party on to Warsaw. Though dissatisfied with the highball proffered him-"You Americans spoil whisky. There's more ice than whisky in this"-Khrushchev...
That task accomplished, the Queen, who in 15,000 miles of travels had seen and been seen by more Canadians than any. other reigning sovereign in history, gave gracious thanks for her welcome and flew home across the Atlantic by Comet jet. Her long, sometimes too arduous tour was more a personal success than a triumph of monarchy in highly independent, increasingly nationalistic Canada. Elizabeth's visit, both in her formal role, officiating with President Eisenhower at the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway, and the informal journeys that followed, was a symbol of the Commonwealth to which Canada...
...thumbs-up sign from a frizzy-haired native, then raced his blue and white Cessna down the crushed-coral airstrip, over the palm-dotted swamplands, and high into the sky to hurdle the jagged mountain peaks concealed in thick cumulus clouds. Settling his sandaled feet on the rudder, he flew with one hand as the other fingered a heavy gold cross hanging from his neck. After a short flight-over forbidding jungles, the pilot banked his plane, swooped down toward a clearing and made a smooth touchdown on another makeshift airfield. There to greet him were the local priest...
...week's end Assistant New York District Attorney James V. Hallisey flew to Rio to test whether Lowell Birrell would come back willingly to stand trial. If Birrell has a change of heart, the Brazilian government, despite the lack of an extradition treaty with the U.S., can probably find ample cause to put him on a New York-bound plane...