Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More Americans were on the way as the roster grew past 90,000 toward the 125,000-man force scheduled for Viet Nam service. And South Korea was preparing to send 15,000 troops of its own to join the battle. Despite the summer monsoon, U.S. planes last month flew a record 2,000 combat missions a week, pushing the Viet Cong off balance. The despair of earlier months was fading as the great war engine revved...
Shastri has managed to build a slight reputation abroad as a man of some mettle. His response to Washington's cancelation of his June visit showed that-when his country's pride was involved-he had spunk. Shastri flew off to Canada and viewed the U.S. from the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, told reporters that he could not come to the U.S. this fall even if Lyndon Johnson wanted him. (He may very well come next spring.) Shastri has maintained his aid arrangements with both the big powers. The U.S. this year will give him $110 million...
...Khartoum the army was ordered on emergency alert, and heavy guards were ringed around government buildings to prevent sabotage. Prime Minister Mahgoub flew back from a quick trip to Ethiopia, Tanzania and Kenya with the news that all three nations had agreed to give no aid to the rebels. Even so, pressures were growing in the black nations to support their fellow blacks against the Arab north, and the Nairobi Daily Nation warned that the war could grow into "another Viet Nam." "Is it too late for peace in the Sudan?" asked the Tanzania Standard. "It will be tragic...
...major impetus for this Draconian doctrine traces back to 1911 when an upstate New York gravestone dealer named Donald MacPherson was driving his new Buick at 15 m.p.h. A wheel flew off, the car flipped, and MacPherson wound up in the hospital. He sued the Buick Co. for negligence in failing to inspect the defective wheel. Buick raised what was then a plausible defense: it had never sold MacPherson anything directly, since he bought from a dealer. Therefore, said Buick, it could not be held liable to MacPherson for negligence...
...spread to most parts of the earth, Tabler has designed 35 hotels that cost $314 million, has 49 more projects abuilding or on the drawing boards in his penthouse office in Manhattan's Statler Hilton. Having signed up last month to design another $50 million worth, he flew off last week on an eleven-day inspection of work in progress in Los Angeles, London, Nairobi and Johannesburg...