Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where Goldwater changed shirts for a dinner with the Willcox Women's Republican Club. Not till 10 p.m., when a golden quarter-moon was sinking into the saguaro, did the campaigner call it a day. Taking off from a scrub-lined strip without lights, he flew into Tucson, checked in at the Pioneer Hotel, took off his shirt, pants and shoes, ordered a brace of Old Crows (splashed with water, but no ice), swallowed a Miltown tablet and went to sleep like a winner...
...Mike Goldwater, Barry's grandfather, packed in behind a mule to found the mercantile business which now does $6,000,000 a year in five Goldwater department stores, spawned a robustious breed whose reputation for high jinks Barry did his best to uphold. An experienced pilot, he flew over all 114,000 sq. mi. of his state, landed long enough to fall in love with the landscape and the Indian tribes, snap thousands of color pictures, race down the perilous Colorado River in a flatboat-making friends everywhere...
...first-rate Army Air Forces pilot in World War II-he was one of ten in the ferry command who volunteered to ferry P-475 across the Atlantic, later flew The Hump from India to China-he came home to head a reform slate to clean up Phoenix's city government. He earned such public acclaim for doing just that-and cutting taxes to boot-that in 1952 he felt sassy enough to tackle Democratic Senator Ernest W. McFarland, Harry Truman's majority leader. Homespun Ernie scarcely deigned to notice this lively upstart. But in the Eisenhower landslide...
...missiles. Vinnell, which normally takes a year to build a Nike site in the U.S., has undertaken a crash program to finish the sites in 50 days, though it still had no formal contract nor any blueprints. Banking on Vinnell's know-how, the Army last week flew in an advance party of a missile battalion from Texas...
That was Monday. Tuesday morning the song was accepted by Atlantic Records. Tuesday night Grean flew to Chicago to have his touring wife, Singer Betty Johnson, record...