Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifty-seven hours after he flew in for "frank and friendly'' discussions with President Eisenhower on U.S.-Japanese relations, Japan's new Conservative Premier Nobusuke Kishi had won his country's greatest postwar victory. It consisted of a set of fundamental changes in Washington's Japan policy that will go far toward establishing his fully sovereign and renascent country as the U.S.'s coequal partner in the Far East. In a joint communiqué issued by the President and the Premier after their talks and from less official leakage, it was plain that Kishi...
...week's end, after jubilantly telling newsmen that he had "completely achieved" his hope of establishing a "true and strong partnership" with the U.S., Kishi flew off to New York and new worlds to conquer. There, among other things this week, he planned to consult with John D. Rockefeller III. other U.S. businessmen, perhaps put in a good word or two about the advantages of wider U.S.-Japanese trade...
...thing in common-they were all from what the U.N. calls "small nations": Australia, Ceylon, Denmark, Tunisia and Uruguay. The bulk of the work of preparing the report fell on the shoulders of Keith Shann, able young (39) Australian statistician-turned-diplomat, who on the day of publication flew back to his post as Australian Ambassador in Manila. To Shann's credit, he maintained a detached attitude in the presentation of fact and conclusions, but it is probably not without certain feeling that he and his fellow "small nations" print Premier Nagy's last broadcast words: "I should...
...this case the satellite was a Civil Air Patrol airplane, towing at the end of 100 ft. of clothesline a rubber plumber's helper fitted with two flashlight batteries and a one-tenth candlepower bulb. The airplane flew 110 m.p.h. at 7,000 ft, which simulated the motion of the satellite in its orbit. The dim bulb gave enough light to look like the satellite at dawn or dusk, when it is in sunlight and the earth below is in darkness...
...distinguish the buttered side of the bread, shed only cigar smoke: "Ah, there is an old Chinese proverb that is the best clue to the incompatibility of David and John: 'When two eagles fly off together into the sky and disappear into a cloud, who can say which flew the higher...