Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flew to Colorado to inspect the new Air Force Academy and talk informally to its first graduation class...
After stopping over in Bonn for a talk with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Secretary of State Herter flew into Geneva at week's end to speak for the U.S. at the Big Four foreign ministers' meeting on Germany. Ahead of him, in the negotiations at Geneva's history-haunted Palais des Nations, Chris Herter faced the sternest test of skill and nerve of his career...
Between visits with the Americans, inexhaustible Nikita received an Indian editor, an Indian scholar, Indonesia's President Sukarno, and discussed things with an official from Finland. Then he hopped into his plane and flew away on a trip to Kiev, while in Geneva sober-faced Andrei Gromyko sat down to do battle with Western diplomats...
...remembers. "If you shut the front and back doors, you'd catch every hoodlum in town." Mimi drifted down to Oregon, then headed north to the hurly-burly of Alaska. "A guy named Phil Ford had an act there. I saw him, and he saw me. Sparks flew...
Emissaries from Rome. The battles known to history as "The Mithradatic Wars" went on for a quarter of a century. First Sulla, then Fimbria, and finally Lucullus smashed Mithradates' armies; the earlier massacre was repaid with the massacre of 300,000 of Mithradates' people. Mithradates flew for refuge to his son-in-law, King Tigranes of Armenia. A few years later, Tigranes marched forth at the head of 250,000 foot soldiers and 55,000 horsemen. To meet him went Rome's Lucullus with a mere handful of men-causing Tigranes to remark: "If these men have...