Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explore the possibility of initiating a new U.N. peace-keeping action, the President flew to Canada where, after a desultory tour of Expo 67, he spent two hours with Prime Minister Lester Pearson, who won a Nobel Prize in 1957 for his post-Suez efforts to restore order to the Middle East. Johnson also conferred in Washington with Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban. The President kept Eban cooling his heels for a full day in punishment for the fact that the Israelis had imprudently announced his plan to meet Johnson before clearing it with the White House...
...flight, Lindbergh earnestly devoted himself to exploiting his fame for the sake of developing aviation. And aviation needed it. In 1927, in all the U.S., fewer than 9,000 people went aloft as passengers on scheduled airlines (compared with 109 million last year). Between accepting medals, he flew the Spirit of St. Louis to every state in the Union, pleading the future of aviation in a high, reedy Midwestern voice. Though he turned down million-dollar contracts for movies and cigarette endorsements, he accepted offers from Pan Am and Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. (later TWA), to become a consultant. Stock...
...Ford and later United Aircraft. By 1944. he had wangled his way to the Pacific, and though as a "technical consultant" he was not eligible to fly in combat, squadron commanders generally had an extra plane warmed up on the line for him. Though old at 42, he flew some 50 combat missions. Perhaps more important, he brought his old genius for engineering to bear on the planes he flew, remarkably improving their effectiveness; by fiddling with the throttle settings and prop angle of the P-38s, he was able to extend their range 500 miles...
...Instead, both sides have engaged in border terrorism that has only served to deepen the hatred between them. Last November, in reprisal for guerrilla raids, Israeli tanks whipped into Jordan-one of its least aggressive neighbors-and shot up a town. Only a month ago, the Israeli air force flew into Syria-which trains and finances most Arab "commando" units -and shot down six enemy...
...accessible and least accessible nations in the Communist world today. Armed guards on the Albanian side open the gate for authorized visitors, then bolt it behind them with a heavy padlock. Last week Roland Flamini of TIME's Vienna bureau, traveling as a "businessman" on a British passport, flew to Dubrovnik in Yugoslavia, where he joined a guided tour that took him to Albania for a two-day visit. His report...