Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dorothy Counts's cruel day was far from over. When she left school, the crowd was waiting, louder and even more threatening than before. Sticks flew at her (Liston Wood Flowers, 18, was arrested for throwing one). She was spat upon (Patricia Elizabeth Smith, 15, was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct after spitting full in her face). Dorothy Counts kept her eyes ahead, walked quietly, calmly to a waiting...
...Dwight Eisenhower, the past few months have brought one setback after another for his program (at the hands of Congress) and his party (at the hands of the Wisconsin electorate). Last week, at his final Washington news conference before he flew off to a long-awaited vacation at Newport, R.I., the President was asked -again-if he regretted running for a second term. His answer was a characteristic bit of Eisenhower philosophy...
...that philosophical mood, Ike, accompanied by a convalescing Mamie, flew to a community that has entertained eleven Presidents since George Washington visited there in 1790. Proper, poised Newport and its 40,000 inhabitants warmed up to the Eisenhower charm, gave the President an all-out welcome...
...week's end the President flew back to Washington for conferences on the Middle East and the South, signed 27 bills, but pocket-vetoed one that would have raised the pay of 1,500,000 postal workers and other federal employees a total of $850 million a year on the grounds that it was inflationary. Then he drove to Baltimore to spend 45 minutes at the debut of Niece Ruth Eisenhower, 19-year-old daughter of his brother Milton. He had, indeed, the air of a man with no regrets and with a great deal of calm determination...
Back from the edge of left-sliding Syria flew Loy Wesley Henderson, 65, ace State Department troubleshooter for the Middle East and respected advocate of a worldwide hard anti-Communist line. "The situation in Syria (see FOREIGN NEWS) is serious," said he at Washington National Airport. "In fact, I would say extremely serious. It might deeply affect the security of the whole free world." He handed a dozen pages of memoranda to a senior State Department official, headed downtown for long hours of talks with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles...