Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the blood-stinging wind he flew. He called his "mayday!" SOS and got an instant response, first from an Air Force base at Altus, Okla., 200 miles away, then from another airborne B-47. Altus gave Obie a compass heading to come in on. His panel lights grew dimmer, his eyes burned like hot lead. He could see the compass needle but not the numbers. He turned his plane to bring the needle toward the heading he wanted: his own field, the Strategic Air Command's Dyess Air Force Base near Abilene, 150 miles away...
...rows of lights. He banked sharply to the right, lined his plane up with the runway and with power on, poured straight for it. Firefighting crews, an ambulance, staff cars and red-blinking emergency trucks shrieked down the runway in pursuit. Obie neatly kissed his plane down. "I flew it into the ground. I wasn't strapped to the seat. I was just sitting. I never made a better landing in my life. I couldn't make a better one in a hundred thousand years." When the plane stopped, he jumped out. Shocked by momentary blindness...
Gamal Abdel Nasser made a spectacular payment on his debt to the Kremlin last week. He flew to Russia to pay the long-postponed visit that had to be put off in 1956 because of the Suez crisis. Moscow greeted him with such a welcome as no other foreigner but Nehru and Tito had received before...
...Rome, Cardinal Stritch was rushed to Sanatrix Clinic. Telegrams poured in from all over the world. To consult with the Italian doctors, two U.S. physicians flew to Rome without waiting to get their passports in order. At the Cardinal's bedside, they concurred in the diagnosis: a block-probably a clot-in a major artery of his right arm. This week the doctors agreed on a drastic recourse: amputation of the Cardinal...
When the evil tidings were borne to him in Hollywood, 61-year-old Walter flew into a Vesuvian rage. Elsa Maxwell, fumed he, is a "fat, sloppy, smelly [unmentionable]." What was worse, said he, she had jeopardized his pet project, the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund: "Letters have been pouring in from people saying, 'We're not going to give any money to the fund because we hear on the Paar show that you are un-American!'" Winchell announced plans to enrich the Runyon Fund by $24 million by suing all twelve of Paar's sponsors...