Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the Atlantic. "Beautiful!" gasped a starry-eyed missile buff. But even more beautiful to the Air Force was the distance the missile traveled before plummeting into the sea: some 2.000 miles, 500 more than its nominal "intermediate range" capability, and 700 more than the first successful test Thor flew last month...
...week's end the U.S. had not only won back but gained ground in Ghana-and in Delaware. "I hope," said Minister Gbedemah as he flew home, "that the people of Ghana understand that there are very few people in the U.S. who act that way." And the restaurant manager got word from the Howard Johnson people that he must, henceforth, serve "anybody who comes to our doors"-quite an order for segregation-minded Dover...
...contention. Nonetheless, Republican Ted Dalton had an outside chance against Almond because before Little Rock Dalton was talking sense about gradual integration and-to the quiet disgust of many Virginia Democrats-Almond was peddling the massive-resistance nonsense that Harry Byrd had decreed. Then the federal troops flew into Arkansas...
...Sixth Fleet moved in, a sweptwing, twin jet flew in from the Bulgarian coast, and came down low over the massed invasion fleet. Vice Admiral Charles R. Brown radioed his carrier force in the clear: "A possibly hostile aircraft is approaching your area. If it menaces your formation, use sidewinders [air-to-air missiles carried beneath a plane's wings] to prevent photography." But before hastily launched U.S. Navy delta wing Sky rays could catch it, the twin jet scooted home to Communist territory...
...scene. I should like to tell my young friends that October 23 is to be a working and school day. I shall come personally to the university to see that it is." With that, Marosan and Kadar, two bush-league traitors kept in power by the Red army, flew-off to Moscow to dine with their masters in the Kremlin, and then on to Peking for the Communist celebration season...