Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Benson-must-go Republicans worked out such a scheme four years ago, but Benson flew to Salt Lake City, convinced his fellow Apostles that he ought to stay at his post in Washington...
...control would the church schools have to accept in return? The cardinals and bishops of France signed a statement pleading with the government not to touch the autonomy of the parochial schools, and even the Freemasons broke precedent by plunging into the controversy. But of all the arguments that flew over France, few were more prolonged than the one in the Cabinet itself...
...cockpit of a single-engined Piper Comanche. Just before taking off from Morocco, Pilot Conrad stuffed his navigational charts in a brown envelope, a clutch of unpaid bills in another. He handed what he believed to be the bills to a well-wishing U.S. consular official, then flew off crosswind, with a one-ton overload of fuel, into the blue yonder, westbound for Trinidad as his first landfall. Casually opening his remaining envelope, he made a discomfiting discovery: he had mistakenly left his charts behind, had a choice of burning up his excess fuel and returning to Africa...
...isth century the talk of Florence was a presepio designed by the young artist Bernardo Buontalenti for the son of Cosimo de Medici. One historian described it as "most singular and new, for not only did one see the heavens open and clouds descend while a quantity of angels flew about and came down to earth, but the innumerable figures all walked toward the holy manger, assuming attitudes which indeed seemed entirely natural...
Bewitching Hour. That weekend did it. On Sunday afternoon Coach Dietzel flew to Natchez, cooled his heels for eight hours waiting for Perry Lee to return from Mississippi. But Schoolboy Perry Lee, closely convoyed by Coach Vaught, was heading for Room 1137 of the King Edward Hotel in Jackson, where Mayor Watkins and Perry Lee's father were waiting. There, at 12:05 amon the morning of Dec. 7, Perry Lee signed his "letter of intent" to play for Mississippi...