Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd from a balcony. Cupping his hands like a megaphone, he shouted, "United we shall win! United we shall win!" Then, accompanied by two tanks that rumbled along as a guard of honor, Constantine went to a local radio station and recorded a 15-minute speech. Royalist pilots flew the tape south to Larissa, a town in central Greece that had the only available transmitter...
...least three of them want to get in right away, and the others are giving serious thought to joining. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie flew into Kampala with his pet Chihuahua Lulu to put in his country's bid for membership. President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia said that his country wants in because it believes that such cooperation is "a matter of life or death." With a hostile white regime in Rhodesia as a neighbor, Zambia sees its economic future in East Africa. Even Somalia's President Abdinashid AH Shermarke, whose country has recently encouraged rebellious tribes...
...performed a second show-for two lonely, grateful men. In 1963, just before his annual Christmas tour, Hope suffered a blood clot in his left eye. Doctors saved his sight with laser-beam surgery. While he was recuperating, his U.S.O. company went on without him to Ankara. Hope flew to Germany where an Air Force plane picked him up and ferried him to Turkey. "He looked like a sick man," says one of his assistants, "but when he walked on the stage, the roar that went up from those people was probably the world's greatest therapy. From that...
With gold speculation still feverish in the wake of the pound's devaluation, a high-ranking U.S. monetary official flew into Switzerland last week in defense of the dollar. After consultation in Basel with representatives of the international gold pool, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs Frederick L. Deming emerged with the tantalizingly vague news that "we have agreed on an even closer coordination of our efforts...
Thirty seconds later Lewis flew past Carr and Mueller and completed his hat trick with a bull skimmer into the lower right corner...