Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reverend Richard Fernandez, co-director of Vietnam Summer, flew to Texas last night after demanding "an open and exhaustive investigation" into the shooting death of Austin peace worker George Vizard...
When word of McNamara's statement reached Westmoreland, the general was hopping mad. Having returned to the U.S. to attend the funeral of his 81-year-old mother in Columbia, S.C., he flew up to Washington to confer with the Joint Chiefs at the Pentagon. He was barely able to conceal his anger over the suggestion that U.S. forces were not being used at full efficiency. It seemed he was taking a bum rap so the President and McNamara could hold down the budget deficit and avert a bigger tax increase...
Horrifying Thing. For the first time since the war began, a sizable number of Arab leaders met last week in a series of whirling minisummits to discuss "nullifying the effects of Zionist aggression." First, Algerian President Houari Boumediene flew into Cairo and excited Cairo crowds with a shrill cry for an immediate resumption of the war with Israel. He was shortly joined in Cairo by Jordan's King Hussein, who privately pleaded for some sort of accommodation with Israel-but got nowhere with his fellow Arabs. After he flew home to Amman, the leaders of the Arab left...
...responsibility of Her Majesty's Government." As for Anguilla itself, the provisional government wants to "explore with Britain the legal arrangements that might be appropriate for the future"-meaning, presumably, a return to the Commonwealth as an in dependent state. At week's end, Adams flew to New York on a fund-raising mission and announced that he even hopes to confer with President Johnson in Washington. One further hint of the island's thinking: its new national anthem has been set to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic...
...keeping her vows. His entreaties notwithstanding, she refused at first to be unfaithful to him, even when he went so far as to place advertisements for cuckolders in the Vienna Tageblatt. Anguished Divorce. She did try to make little compromises that might have held the marriage together. Occasionally she flew off the handle and slapped her husband around. During a literary quarrel with him, she gave him a good thrashing with one of the whips he conveniently left lying around the house. But it was not enough: by now, Sacher-Masoch wanted the recriminations and anguish of a divorce. After...