Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force C-130 that flew the Berlin corridor at 25,000 ft. instead of the usual 10,000 ft. to test Russian reaction had advance clearance from the President. Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, in Washington for the NATO meeting, hit the ceiling when he saw press reports of the C-130 flight, snapped questions at Acting Secretary of State Herter at their next meeting, was calmed down when Herter promised to consult him before it happened again...
...Dwight Eisenhower, symbolizing the dangerous early days when he flew to Europe as NATO's first Supreme Commander, who brought the alliance's purpose into clearest focus with the greatest simplicity. "Look at the hand," he said, raising his hand, fanning his fingers in a gesture that many of his old NATO officers well remembered. "Each finger is not of itself a very good instrument for either defense or offense, but close it in a fist and it can become a very formidable weapon of defense . . . The need, as we reach for a lasting peace with justice...
Into London, in response to a longstanding invitation from a group of British Laborite backbenchers, flew a high-powered Soviet parliamentary delegation headed by gaunt, shock-haired Mikhail Suslov, 56, top Stalinist theoretician. He chucked babies under the chin, watched the House of Commons in action, and laid the inevitable wreath on the Highgate grave of Karl Marx. But his real interest was in long, private discussions with top Laborites Hugh Gaitskell...
...Congo-and hopes very much to be the last one. Long before the bloody Léopoldville riots last January, he had warned his government that unless it began giving the Congo democracy and some sort of independence, it would face "catastrophe" and lose the colony altogether. When he flew into Léopoldville last week, he got the kind of ugly welcome that France's Premier Guy Mollet once got in Algiers. Angry white settlers shut up their shops in protest, flew flags of mourning, chalked up slogans saying GO HOME, TRAITOR, and SNUL (Flemish for simpleton...
Moody, promising Cinemactress Diane (Peyton Place) Varsi, with two husbands behind her at 21, collected her 2½-year-old son Shawn and a wicker suitcase of possessions, flew off to settle in Vermont. Snapped troubled Diane: "I just don't want to act any more. I find it destructive to me. I don't ever plan to return to Hollywood." Hoping otherwise, 20th Century-Fox, which has title to almost five more years of Diane's services, gave her an indefinite leave of absence...