Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should stain the legitimacy of his power. (If the rebellious generals seized Paris by force, he told a subordinate, "they will not find De Gaulle in their baggage.") But to achieve power legitimately, he needed parliamentary approval, above all, that of the Socialist Party. Accordingly, when Socialist Guy Mollet flew down to Colombey to see whether he could support De Gaulle with a clear conscience, the general smothered all his longtime contempt for party politics, turned on such charm that Mollet departed with the declaration: "Today has been the finest day of my life...
...Tsun got a British visa, bought a ticket on a regular British European Airways flight to London. Last week he went to the airport, fearing that at any moment he would be turned back. But the Polish officials passed him, and Fu Tsun flew safely on to London. Friends hid him out in the country, but he was willing to answer a few questions from the press. What did he think of things in China? Said Fu Tsun tactfully: "Whatever people may think of Mao Tse-tung's policies, I say he is the greatest modern Chinese poet...
...cracking. In Havana 30 new British medium tanks and cases of Italian machine guns were unloaded and hustled off to Camp Columbia. From time to time there were tales of dissatisfaction and defection among both high-and low-ranking Cuban army officers. One young air force pilot, Jose Crespo, flew his B-26 to exile in Miami last week, saying that he could not obey orders to "bomb cities and kill innocent women and children." But there were other pilots, willing to use bombs. So long as the big army garrisons remain loyal, the Batista regime still stands...
...acquaintance with official Washington, where he served as head of the Civil Aeronautics Administration (1950-51) and the Civil Aeronautics Board (1951-52). When President Eisenhower overturned a CAB decision in 1955 and ordered Northwest off the Seattle-Portland-Honolulu run in favor of Pan Am, scrappy Don Nyrop flew into Washington, rallied so much political support that Ike returned the route to Northwest, admitted that he had "made an error." Last month Northwest, whose domestic runs had been limited to Northern states, opened a fat Chicago-Florida route, worth $13.5 million a year...
...India, where the symbolic gesture means so much, the 20th century last week sought out the old-fashioned ways. In his personal turboprop Viscount Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru flew 500 miles from New Delhi south to Ahmedabad. There he stepped into a red and cream Chevrolet convertible, rode 37 miles into the countryside, and came to a stop in the dingy village of Gangad, a place so desolate that it specifically recalls Gandhi's bitter comment about India's "700,000 dungheaps, known as villages...