Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arabs worked out their first, tentative compromise with Israel, and Jordanian refugees began returning to occupied territory, the Arabs continued to demonstrate their inability to face up to the problems of negotiating a peace. In a week of frenzied activity, Iraq's President Abdel Rahman Aref flew off to Syria, then to Jordan, then back home again to receive Syrian Head of State Noureddin Attassi on a return call. After receiving Aref in Amman, Jordan's King Hussein took off on a whirlwind visit to nine other Middle Eastern and Arab countries that would last ten days. Kuwait...
Party Ultimatum. In Brussels, the reaction was angry and immediate. Fearful that another anti-white bloodletting was imminent, Foreign Minister Pierre Harmel flew home from a vacation in southern France to appear on radio and television and demand that Mobutu guarantee the safety of the 40,000 Belgians who live in the Congo. Otherwise, Harmel implied, Belgium would cut off its $70 million-a-year aid program and order its citizens home, a move that could mean the virtual col lapse of all the Congo's industries, communications and civil service...
...Then came a voice telling him to get up and go to Saigon to take care of Miss America. Not bad for a dream. Even better as the real McCoy. So U.S. Army Captain Frank Lennon, 25, a West Pointer and a gentleman, scraped off the mud and flew to Saigon to act as official escort for Jane Anne Jayroe, 20, the current Miss America, and five former state beauty queens arriving for a 17-day tour of Viet Nam. And how came Lennon by this boondoggle? He just wrote a letter to the Army's p.i. officer, mentioning...
...pioneering work fresh in his mind, Williams flew to Manaus, Brazil, last month to fulfill a longstanding six-week commitment to serve as senior scientist aboard the Alpha Helix, a sophisticated research vessel operated by California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. From Manaus, Williams headed the Alpha Helix upstream for the expedition's shore camp at the confluence of the Rio Negro and the Rio Branco. The Negro, at high-water level during this time of year, "looked like Chesapeake Bay," says Williams. Along the shore, trees and plants were steeped in 30 ft. of the river...
...Hitler's feet in a briefing hut in East Prussia on July 20, 1944. The outcome is an old tory. A chance gesture pushed the bomb out of killing range of Hitler, "thirteen officers were wounded; Hitler was only mildly inconvenienced. Staufenberg, thinking that Hitler had been killed, flew back to Berlin to help di-direct the coup that was to have followed. Before midnight on July 20, he was seized, condemned to death by a ummary court-martial, and executed in the courtyard of the Wehrmacht's headquarters under the glare of headlights from lorries that were...