Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago, switched, on the advice of a favorite professor, from chemistry to physics, took his Ph.D. in 1936. In the early years of World War II he worked at M.I.T.'s Radiation Laboratory, moved on to the Manhattan Project in 1943, Los Alamos in 1944-45. He flew in a B-29 half a mile behind the plane that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, later lined up against J. Robert Oppenheimer's refusal to speed development of the hydrogen bomb. Light-haired, blue-eyed, easygoing, he sports a yellow Lincoln convertible, shoots mid-80s golf (he sent...
During one of Vickrey's three sittings with the princess, a real emergency developed: that was the day the hotel delivered his eggs soft-boiled. As Vickrey flew back to the U.S. with the portrait and McHale began filing the story of Princess Aisha, other TIME correspondents from Cairo to Djakarta were adding their reports on the emancipation of Moslem women. See FOREIGN NEWS, Beyond the Veil...
...Arkansas branch, and front-line leader during the crisis at Little Rock's Central High School, was visiting in New York. Asked if she would return to Little Rock-and arrest-Daisy Bates seemed surprised. "That's my home," she said simply. "I live there." Thereupon she flew back, drove to the police station, was duly arrested and released on $300 bond...
...Knesset. Only half the members were present, and four chairs at the Cabinet ministers' table stood empty. An Israeli M.P. was recalling the peril that faced his nation exactly a year before, when its troops stood ready to launch their attack on the Sinai Peninsula. A small object flew through the air from the direction of the visitors' gallery. Like the well-trained old soldier that he is, Prime Minister Ben-Gurion ducked to the floor as the missile hurtled past his snowy, hair, but nobody else moved. A second later, the tossed hand grenade exploded...
...disaster, she broke with her father, stopped playing the piano and started the long process of turning herself into a normal human being. She went to the University of California, fell in love with a fellow student, and at 19 told her father that they were getting married. He flew into a rage, threw them out of the house and shouted at her in the street as she fled: "You lousy little bitch! You'll never play two notes again without...