Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many top Navy and Air Force officials, in particular, felt that the U.S. was destroying more enemy supplies by concentrating its bombing on supply routes from the Demilitarized Zone at the 17th parallel to the 19th parallel rather than by trying to bombard the entire North. Indeed, the U.S. flew nearly 700 more missions in April over the 21% of North Viet Nam's territory that is not yet proscribed than it did in March, when most of the country was fair game...
...hand, the Soviet Union was pressuring him to slow down his reforms; Pravda spoke ominously of "subversive activities, antipopular forces, anti-Communist hysteria and anarchy" in Czechoslovakia. To soothe the Russians, Dubček, accompanied by Premier Oldrich Cernik, flew to Moscow for talks with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. Even as they went, however, increasingly vocal liberals in Czechoslovakia were demanding nothing less than full democracy...
...Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, 61, the freewheeling chairman of Publicis, France's largest private ad agency (billings: $43 million). Bleustein-Blanchet founded Publicis in 1927, gradually expanded the business by piloting his own plane around the country in search of contracts. After World War II, during which he flew for the Free French, he had to rebuild Publicis almost from scratch. In the process, he picked up such major accounts as Shell, Colgate-Palmolive and Renault. He also gave the agency a profitable sideline by opening Le Drugstore on the ground floor of the Publicis building on the Champs Elysees...
...weeks, an overdose of "Lox & Chitlins" administered heavy-handedly by chiropractor Conn Nugent induced repeated vomiting. Doctors called in prescribed second-hand ridicule of institutions, elaborate diction, convoluted sentence structure, redundancy and random scoffing, but The Harvard Lampoon grew increasingly incoherent and seemed to lose touch with humanity. Specialists flew in from as far afield as Michigan and Rhode Island, and succeeded in alleviating the patient's suffering in its last hours. Observers sometimes found it difficult to follow osteopath David McClelland's complicated juxtaposition of photographs, clever cartoons, nonsense and witty social commentary, all woven into an adventure story...
Concluding that the plane was basically sound, the Air Force ordered the F-111s back into action on April 12, replacing the downed planes with two fresh ones. For nearly two weeks they flew some dozen missions, mostly at night over North Viet Nam, until the third plane went down. Mystified by the malfunctions, the Air Force was at a loss to say what was bugging the enormously complicated fighting machine, which carries three tons of electronic gear. After withholding the surviving F-111s from action for a few days, it sent them once again into combat. This time...