Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mist. Forty-eight Thunderchiefs had been assigned to bomb the Thanhhoa bridge, a key rail-highway span across the Song Ma River, 76 miles south of Hanoi. The jets flew in groups of four; while one flight attacked, the others circled the area, their speed cut by the weight of their armament-eight 750-lb. bombs and 2,000 lbs. of cannon shells in each aircraft. High above and to the north, F-100 Super Sabre jets flew combat air patrol. Their mission: to forewarn of the approach of enemy aircraft and if possible to intercept. The Super Sabres...
...fast. More than 2,000 did. Then planes saturated the woods with chemical defoliants. After a few weeks of sunny, wind-scoured weather, the Boiloi Forest was tinder-dry. Last week U.S. bombers swept in with loads of Incendijel (an incendiary compound derived from napalm), while behind them flew C-123s dropping drums of fuel...
...doing, Hussein took the crown rights from his own infant son, three-year-old Prince Abdullah. He feared Jordanians would reject Abdullah as King because the child's mother, Princess Muna (formerly Toni Gardner), was a British commoner. After the decision was announced, Princess Muna flew abruptly to Britain for a "medical checkup," taking Abdullah and his little brother with her. It was her second trip home to see the doctor within a month, but spokesmen at Hussein's palace in Amman denied that there was marital trouble in the royal household...
...Future. At week's end Taylor flew back to Washington to report to the President-and he found Johnson steadfast in his policy of hitting the Communists where it hurts. Earlier in the week, at a three-hour White House briefing for 42 Governors, the President declared his determination to keep South Viet Nam free of Communist control whether it takes "20 or 50 years...
There were, of course, some silly attempts at harassment. Bitter Alabamians drove past in cars, yelping obscenities at the marchers. One day a small plane flew over, dropped leaflets threatening to cut off the jobs of Negroes in the march ("An unemployed agitator ceases to agitate"). The 141-member Alabama legislature unanimously passed a resolution claiming that there had been "evidence of much fornication" at the marchers' camps and that "young women are returning to their respective states apparently as unwed expectant mothers." Retorted John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: "All these segregationists can think...