Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seeking first-hand facts, the Prime Minister flew to the front to consult his officers and console the wounded troops. In New Delhi the External Affairs Ministry announced the harshest action of the week against Red China: the shutdown of the Indian consulates in Shanghai and Lhasa. This did not affect India's Peking embassy, which, aggression or no aggression, was doing business as usual. At week's end. some of its business was revealed: under orders from Nehru, Indian diplomats in Peking were carrying on discreet preliminary peace talks with China...
...fact could hardly have been further from the hope. Mikoyan flew from New York to Washington, spent more than three hours with Kennedy, who was flanked by State Secretary Dean Rusk and former Ambassador to Moscow Llewellyn ("Tommy'') Thompson. Kennedy found himself enjoying the matching of wits with Mikoyan, and the dueling went straight on without the coffee break that has become customary during such afternoon sessions in the President's office. But when the two were done, they were still where they had started...
Keeping low, I flew inland until I reached a river inlet to a big bay. This was my initial point, or the place where I turned the plane on its target course. I trimmed the aircraft to allow the cameras to pass over the airfield and missile site at the best possible direction and altitude for the photography that was desired...
Willowy, blue-eyed song-and-dance girl Louise Cordet, 16, whose mother, a London pubkeeper, and the Prince are long time friends, flew across for a one-night stand at Paris' Olympia Theater. Wriggling up to the footlights, she gave the full house four songs, including a low and swinging rendition of her smash record I'm Just a Baby that has toted up a sale of more than 500,000 copies on both sides of the Channel...
...Like a bird. Anyway, that's what people said at the time. According to many witnesses, Father Giuseppe flew more than a hundred times. He flew when he had a mystical experience, and sometimes he flew for a considerable distance. Once in an ecstasy he flew about twelve paces over the head of a Spanish grandee. Once he flew for Pope Urban VIII. Several times he flew with a friar in his arms, and once, according to some not unimpeachable sources, he flew about 70 yds., picked up a 36-ft. cross that ten men could not lift...