Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest cutbacks, putting U.S. military manpower at 22% under the 1953 Korean war peak, mostly reflected an increasingly painful Pentagon budget squeeze, in turn caused by the spiraling costs of missile research and development, of complex new electronic devices, of materials and labor generally. Early this spring, Defense spending flew embarrassingly out of hand, promised to exceed...
...brisker Canadian-British trade, proposed that his fellow chiefs of government meet next in Canada; back in Ottawa, he presided over sessions of his brand-new Cabinet to chart Canada's new political course. Last week, in his first breathing spell since he took office, John Diefenbaker flew to home town Prince Albert (pop. 21,000), Sask. and a heart-warming homecoming from his constituents...
Next day the Prime Minister and three companions flew north to forest-ringed Lac la Ronge and a few days' fishing. As a concession to Diefenbaker's new job, his companions excused him from his customary chore as cook. Trolling the glass-smooth waters for lake trout, Diefenbaker hauled in a six-pounder...
...case of the disappearance of one of Trujillo's most impassioned critics, Columbia University Lecturer Jesus de Galindez. Trujillo's expressed hope: to disprove "fantastic charges" that Dominicans engineered last year's airplane kidnaping of Galindez from Manhattan, then killed U.S. Pilot Gerald Murphy, who flew the kidnap plane (TIME...
...over in 55 minutes. Afterwards even Hoad admitted that Hoad had been great. "I think I've played better in Australia," he said, "but this was good tennis." So good, in fact, that Amateur King Hoad promptly decided he was now ready for the pros, flew to New York to discuss a fat professional contract with Tennis Promoter Jack Kramer...