Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year stabilization plan. Plane traffic in and out of Brasília was so heavy that the country's four major airlines set up temporary counters in the lobby of the Congress building, and as a gag Deputies went around greeting each other, "Hello, Mr. Minister." Goulart himself flew off to Rio for two days to confer with army generals and politicians...
...very cordially in the Russian manner with bread and salt." Foresightedly, she had brought along photographs of herself and passed them out to workers who greeted her, giving most of the pictures to women. "I prefer women today," she said. "The men shouldn't complain." When she flew into Moscow for her official reception three days later, Valya was greeted by more flowers than anyone remembered ever having seen before in the Russian capital, a bear hug and kiss from Khrushchev, and her best beau, Bachelor Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev...
...Vice President Richard M. Nixon, 50, describing his fling at flamenco dancing in Madrid. On a two-month tour abroad before plunging into his new job with a Manhattan law firm, Nixon squired his family around the Spanish landscape, then-gathering material for two Satevepost articles about international affairs-flew off to Barcelona for "a very pleasant interview" with Generalissimo Franco. At week's end the tourists were in Egypt for another round of business-with-pleasure, seeing Cairo, Aswan, Luxor, and President Nasser...
...lend the head to Houston. All he knew about finding the head was that it lay somewhere on the island of San Lorenzo be tween two rivers, about 40 miles from the town of Minatitlan in southern Mexico. The Mexican government lent Sweeney a helicopter, and with it he flew from village to village scrutinizing the terrain for any big heads, and occasionally landing to inquire if the villagers had seen one. The helicopter pilot eventually spotted the head, buried in a ten-foot hole and surrounded by such dense jungle that it was invisible to anyone 15 yards away...
around the world. Parker's shapely"51" pens signed the Japanese and the German surrender agreements after World War II, the Korean cease-fire at Panmunjom and the Japanese Peace Treaty. Truman, Attlee and Stalin used a Parker to sign the Potsdam agreement, and Khrushchev flew home with a sup ply of Parkers after his shoe-slapping U.N. visit three years ago. In develop ing nations, where the fight against il literacy is constantly creating the need for more pens, a Parker pen is one of the status symbols of the educated...