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Word: flew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turks officially accorded him their "full confidence." And as the President of the U.S. flew on next morning in his jet to Pakistan, Afghanistan and India, such renewed confidence rode with him, along with his own personal spirit and purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Come Rain, Come Shine | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Smaller Germany. Last week, as these possibilities unfolded, the Germans were increasingly disturbed by the future glimpses they saw. Into Paris, in a Luftwaffe transport, flew Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to see his old friend De Gaulle. Convinced that it is his historic mission to end the disastrous century-old rivalry between France and Germany, Adenauer has committed Germany's future to partnership with France, and he was alarmed by the direction De Gaulle was taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: An End of One's Own | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...deceptive acts." Same day, five FTC commissioners sat down at a long, dark mahogany table, solemnly exchanged views on phony advertising with the broadcasting varsity: CBS's Dr. Frank Stanton, NBC's Robert Kintner, ABC's Oliver Treyz, Mutual's Robert F. Hurleigh. Smooth talk flew back and forth as everyone tried to outdo everyone else in deploring the subject at hand. Only a few admen were guilty of malpractice, of course ("There are also statesmen in advertising," said Treyz), but where evil exists, it must be stamped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Climbing the Pedestal | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...flew only 100 ft. over the Atlantic, at night he climbed to 500 ft. He made hourly radio position reports, saw no other planes or ships, never got sleepy enough to use his stay-awake pills. After 28 hours, he sighted Trinidad off Venezuela, turned up the Antilles toward the U.S., bypassing Cuba ("because I didn't want to get shot down"). He had enough fuel to make it to Los Angeles, but decided to land at El Paso because his jugs were empty and he was parched with thirst. Said he, as he downed a bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVENTURE: Like Old Times | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...corespondent. To Tycoon Onassis, Tina's legal blockbuster came as a "surprise." For Soprano Maria Callas, 36,, for weeks in print as a friend of Onassis, and separated from Italian Industrialist Giovanni Battista Meneghini, the suit triggered a quick conference with Onassis in Monte Carlo. Then Maria flew back to her villa in Milan, pleading innocence of any and all storm-brewing. But who was the shadowy Mrs. J.R., accused by Tina of being Onassis' great and good friend on a semi-global scale over a seven-year period? To some newsmen, it was all Greek, but others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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