Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mauve silk umbrellas were hoisted over the heads of General and Madame de Gaulle, while 200 dusky, nubile Cambodian maidens scattered jasmine petals from beaten-silver bowls in their path. The entire Cambodian jet air force-four null - flew past to take De Gaulle's salute...
With the appreciative applause of the Denver academicians still ringing in his ears, the President flew to Oklahoma, though Republican Governor Henry Bellmon had coolly suggested that he keep his "nonpolitical" caravan out of the state during so political a season. Paying Bellmon no heed, the President turned up at Pryor, where a federally aided industrial park is planned, and told his audience that "while America has come a long way, the best is yet to come. Change is the most constant force in our world," he said, and U.S. policy is "to make it work...
...relations frayed to the breaking point, President Humberto Castello Branco flew to Recife fortnight ago for a 40-minute chat with Cámara. The talk was secret, but its results were evident. Last week Castello Branco ordered the truculent General Portugal and his two top aides transferred out of the Northeast, named moderate officers to replace them...
...When they arrested the portly publisher 13 months ago, during a lunch with Odell in Amin's seaside villa, the police claimed that they found 20 pages of Odell's handwritten notes on a table near by. Odell was released because of his diplomatic immunity, and immediately flew back to Washington "for reassignment." "I am innocent," Amin insisted last week. "I have faith in my country, and history will reveal the truth." As far as Nasser was concerned, it already...
Congress came to the aid of the loan-starved housing industry last week with a $4.76 billion package of federal mortgage money. Responding to Administration urging and the lobbying of 700 home builders who flew into Washington five weeks ago, the legislators approved a. bill to funnel the funds into FHA and VA home loans through the Federal National Mortgage Association, a partly private, partly Government-owned corporation that is best known by its nickname, Fannie Mae. If all the money is used as intended, it should finance construction of about 320,000 homes, or nearly one-third...