Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Live . . ." When the President flew on to Salina, Kans., then drove with Mamie in his bubbletop limousine 24 miles through sizable, friendlier crowds to home town Abilene (first visit in four years), he showed much more of his famous, warm, arms-up humanity. In Abilene, in the small white frame house in which he and his brothers grew up, Ike happily showed Mamie how the family had used an old cradlelike dough tray in baking bread...
DULLES SCENTS BRINK VICTORY, proclaimed the Christian Science Monitor last week as the Secretary of State flew'back from a few days at his Duck Island retreat to a capital hoping against hope that Red China would make its seven-day ceasefire on Quemoy permanent. Dulles conferred with Under Secretary of State Christian Herter and Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs Walter Robertson, hit a quick consensus that the Communists had stopped shooting because their artillery blockade of Quemoy had failed, and they were unwilling or unable to step up the pressures in the teeth of U.S. and Chinese...
...child born 80 years ago, the transcontinental railroad, only nine years old, was a new thing. Electric power did not become publicly available until he was a year old. He was 17 before Marconi sent his first wireless signals, and he was 25 when the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk...
Last May, after his party was swept into power, Olympio proclaimed: "We are masters of our own house." Last month he flew up to Paris to make sure. Though the De Gaulle government has always been sympathetic to his demands, he was sternly told: "If it is independence you have come for, you can have it now and face immediate withdrawal of French administrative and financial aid." Olympio protested that this was no way to treat a U.N. trusteeship. Agreeing that Olympio had a point, the French promised to help train the Togolese to take full control of currency, defense...
With the "partners" on Cyprus sharply at odds, and Greece muttering about quitting NATO, Paul-Henri Spaak, NATO's Secretary-General, flew to Athens, offered a proposal: a conference of all parties in a new attempt to solve the agonizing quarrel. Accepting, Greece for the first time in three bitter years showed itself willing to sit down with Turkey though denying it is any of Turkey's business...