Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scarcely 50 minutes after the White House had announced the Soviet nuclear test, President Kennedy flew off to his. summer home at Hyannisport. There, over the Labor Day weekend, he relaxed with his family, loaded 18 of the clan's small fry onto a golf cart and drove off to the candy store. Obviously, if Nikita Khrushchev had tried to panic John Kennedy, he had missed the mark...
...claiming that he had made the first suggestion that the U.S. send a high Government official to Berlin, many would remember that he had rebuked Brandt for his letter to Washington demanding "not merely words, but political action'' to save the city. Belatedly, the busy Chancellor flew up to Berlin last week to address the voters, prompting Bonn's usually pro-C.D.U. General-Anzeiger to note acidly that "an earlier visit certainly would have saved the Berliners many hours of hopelessness.'' The Chancellor had, critics pointed out. found time at the height...
Brazil's ever emotional and sometimes erratic President Jânio Quadros outdid himself last week. "I have been beaten by forces against me, and so I leave the government," he cried. He resigned the presidency, and flew off back to his native Sao Paulo. He left the president of the Chamber of Deputies, a little-known politician named Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli, to preside as caretaker in his stead...
...autographs-from him, not from me." Che surprisingly agreed. He told an interviewer that it was a "short, courteous and cold meeting, and was not important." But Che used the Goodwin talks as a wedge to wangle himself a secret appointment with Argentine President Arturo Frondizi. He then flew off to make the same coexistence offer in Buenos Aires...
...balcony overhead. Surrealist Artist Salvador Dali abruptly appeared in a Venetian gondolier's outfit and a red Catalan cap, began splashing brown and gold paint on a canvas with such vehemence that he spattered the astonished audience below. With a flourish, he ripped the canvas open-and out flew a dozen frightened homing pigeons, to flap about looking wildly for their cote...