Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alcock and Brown, who flew the Atlantic nonstop eight years before Lindbergh's flight, I am baffled by what goes into the fabrication of American folklore. Would you resent the observation that Lindbergh was at least the 64th person to cross the Atlantic...
...Gaulle made a one-day sightseeing tour of Venice, then flew back to Paris for a surprise meeting with Saudi Arabia's King Feisal. He then started preparations for this week's state visit to Poland, in September plans to visit Rumania. Though, as last March's election showed, he has lost much of his appeal at home, De Gaulle is still an impressive crowd puller on the road...
Split Image. To test his suspicion, Kuiper loaded a team of scientists, a twelve-inch telescope and some complex infra-red instruments into a NASA Convair 990 jet last month and flew along a computer-determined course between Montreal and Lake Superior. At its 37,000-foot altitude, the plane was above 99.5% of the earth's atmospheric water vapor, which ordinarily confuses ground-based astronomers attempting to determine the amount of water on other planets...
...flew a replica of the Spirit...
...alternative between Brookline-Elm and the route to the East was customarily pictured as one of homes vs.jobs. The arguments between advocates of the different locations flew fast and furious, with contradicting statistics and claims abounding. The essential difference was always one of running the highway through an area of homes and small businesses (Brookline-Elm) or into a prospering industrial sector (Portland-Albany). And if Brookline-Elm were chosen, it would create a natural residential-industrial boundary on one side of Massachusetts Avenue, but on the other side, would leave a substantial strip of homes wedged between the highway...