Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the explicit understanding that they would never be used against India.* Ayub Khan responded that "we will spend our time dealing with the enemy rather than putting the American weapons in cotton wool." Uncertain just what was happening in the Chhamb area, U.S. military officers flew to the fighting scene to investigate the charges...
...driven off his land by military planes flying as low as 67 ft. above his house near Greensboro, N.C. The court upheld Causby because the physical invasion of his "super-adjacent airspace" made his land uninhabitable. The noise, in fact, so frightened his chickens that 150 of them flew into the nearest walls and were killed. Only after the invasion occurred was Causby allowed to recover $375 for his chickens...
...Boston, Philadelphia and New York, he was variously known as "Billiard Ball Stengel" and "Casey the Clown" for 1) his hardheadedness in doing things his way, and 2) his penchant for practical jokes. There was the time, for instance, when he tipped his cap to the crowd, and out flew a sparrow. Such antics made it easy to forget the fact that his lifetime batting average over a dozen big-league seasons was a solid .284, and that he outhit Babe Ruth in the 1923 World Series-batting .417 and winning two games singlehanded with clutch home runs...
Cloaked in inscrutability and her undying charm, Madame Chiang Kaishek, 67, flew into the U.S. for her first visit since 1958. Immediately, she had everyone wondering whether the tour might include a stop at the White House and some talks about the future of Formosa, but Nationalist China's First Lady gracefully sidestepped all questions about her purposes. She said she would like to visit President Johnson, but added that no advance arrangements had been made. Then Madame Chiang visited relatives and friends in San Francisco, revealing a bit of gossip about her husband. "In the last two years...
Boats Without Brine. Virtually every boat manufacturer has had the same experience. C. P. Leek & Sons Inc., a New Jersey company that built clippers 40 years before Ben Franklin flew his first kite, began making luxury items standard equipment on their Pacemaker yacht five years ago, has seen sales soar from $1,000,000 to $14 million. Its largest model, a 53-ft. motor yacht, offers all the amenities found on Chris Crafts, plus built-in television, bathtub, washer-dryer combination and ironing board, symbols of domesticity that would wrinkle the brow of any old salt...