Word: flew
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This week, with the Big Four foreign ministers' conference at Geneva in recess and acknowledged to be a diplomatic water haul (see FOREIGN NEWS), Secretary of State Christian Herter flew back to the U.S. At Washington's Military Air Transport Service Terminal, Herter got a big welcome from State Department aides, the British and French ambassadors, wives and children of his Geneva team. Said Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon: "Congratulations." Herter lifted his scraggly eyebrows and looked at Dillon quizzically...
...pumping 30 million tons of oil a year out of the Sahara-almost the exact amount needed for domestic consumption. But if France is sold on the Sahara, the Sahara is not entirely sold on France. Last week, as self-styled commis voyageur (traveling salesman) for the Sahara, Soustelle flew in his ministerial plane straight into the scorched and craggy land of the Mozabites, the most sales-resistant people in the desert...
Evolution v. Revolution. Next day the President flew to Atlantic City to address the American Medical Association, warned the medical profession against contributing to inflation with bloated fees (see MEDICINE), gave a medical twist to his pleas for a balanced budget: "Habitual violation of a balanced diet can lead to ruined health; deliberately to unbalance the federal budget in time of huge indebtedness and rapidly increasing prosperity can bring about an enfeebled economy...
Conrad took off from Casablanca last week with a whopping 5,000-lb. overall weight (the plane weighs 1,504 Ibs. empty). As his 500-gallon gas supply drained away, he throttled his engine back from 125 m.p.h. to 100 m.p.h., flew most of the way "right on the deck" in good weather at less than 500 ft. Conrad's only crisis came as he neared the coast of Texas, when he decided to drink some tea. "The Arabs put mint in it, and it had become rancid," he explained. "Boy, was I sick!" "Everybody likes to break...
...Jordan as a condition for getting a title fight with Virgil Akins. Leonard, together with Jordan's manager. Don Nesseth, pretended to agree. After the fight Leonard ignored Blinky Palermo's attempts to collect a share of the money. Soon he got a summons to Miami. He flew down, was brought into the presence of Frankie Carbo at a waterfront motel. Carbo "advised" he comply...