Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rush & Fuss. The President's shortlived attack came after a hectic four days in which he flew to Florida, spent two days aboard the carrier Saratoga, worked on and delivered a major pep talk to Republican leaders meeting in Washington, and drove to Washington's American University to deliver a speech (in praise of the U.S. Foreign Service) while receiving an honorary doctor of laws degree. Over and above all else, the President was fretting about two items of substance: 1) the future of his legislative program, especially military and foreign-aid appropriations; and 2) the wrangle with...
...Yafi, heavily attacked Solh's pro-Western policies, and was backed by Egypt and Syria in efforts ranging from plain money (not so plentiful as it used to be) to attempted riots. The U.S., making little effort to disguise its support for Solh, just a day before elections flew in four planeloads of jeeps and recoilless rifles as the first shipment under the Eisenhower Doctrine. Last week, as the Lebanese voted in the first of four Sunday elections for a new 66-man Parliament, 15 out of the 22 government candidates up for election came out victors. Solh himself...
While Dorothy thumbed the Saturday Evening Post, her pilot-husband radioed ahead to Rawlins, Wyo. for the weather, learned that a vicious storm front was spreading across surrounding Carbon County. As they flew through the grey fringes of the storm at 8,200 ft., Dorothy heard the engines sputter; then her husband shouted: "Hang on, darling, we're going to crash...
...Kasba Mechta, reported TIME Correspondent Edward Behr, who flew in by helicopter, vultures wheeled overhead, and the wail of women filled the air. Bodies sprawled in every hut. In the mosque lay 87 grotesquely tumbled bodies; the ground was black with blood and brains. In all, the French counted 302 corpses...
...years U.S. advisers had been scolding the Turkish government for trying to expand too far too fast and warning the Turks that they were scaring investors away. Yet last week, as he flew off to a Baghdad Pact meeting in Karachi, tough Premier Adnan Menderes had the look of a man well satisfied with things. As his plane winged eastward, he could look pleasantly down on Anatolia, usually brown, now lushly green. Six weeks of rain had changed the vital wheat crop prospects from poor to good...