Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promised to keep oil flowing to the West. Yet Nasser himself, in the first days of the nerve-jangling week, had been unable to sustain the look of the innocent and casual vacationer sailing through the Mediterranean. The unexpected landings in Lebanon and Jordan so unnerved him that he flew precipitately to Moscow. According to Cairo, Nasser pleaded with Nikita Khrushchev to let well enough alone, and not to send in "volunteers." There was no need for the Russians to move in: Moscow was doing better by professing peace, crying havoc, and denouncing American "colonialist aggressors...
Into Beirut flew the U.S.'s five-star Ambassador Robert Murphy, after a record eleven-hour nonstop flight from the U.S. To make certain that Chamoun does not use U.S. marines to keep himself in power. Murphy had behind him President Eisenhower's explicit statement that the U.S. accepts Chamoun's declaration that he will not try for a second term. It was Murphy's delicate, difficult mission to try to "orchestrate" a new solution among the squabbling Lebanese, so that the marines can go back to their ships...
...Adriatic. When he learned about American troop landings in Lebanon and the increase of tension in the area, Nasser returned to Pula, where he met with Tito to discuss the situation. From Pula, Nasser, accompanied by U.A.R. Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi, went to Brioni. From Brioni, Fawzi and Nasser flew to Moscow, where Nasser had two meetings with Khrushchev that lasted eight hours. They discussed the international situation and necessary steps to preserve peace...
...think Nixon's trip did more good than harm or more harm than good?" asked the poll takers. In every capital, at least a plurality voted for more good than harm-and in Lima, where stones flew, 72% voted approval of Nixon's visit...
Angling for a friendly reaction in the U.S., Rebel Raúl Castro's men freed the rest of their U.S. hostages last week "because of the Lebanese situation.'' U.S. Navy helicopters flew to a meadow near the eastern Cuban mountain town of Puriales and on four successive days brought out the eleven marines and 18 sailors kidnaped three weeks ago on a bus outside the Guantánamo naval base. The play for U.S. good will was frank. Said the rebel commander in Puriales: "If the admiral wants to send you into battle in Lebanon...