Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before Hussein's elite Arab Legion fired into the crowd from the walls around the Damascus gate. Riots dragged on for two days in nearby Ramallah, where the legion also had to fire on demonstrators to disperse them. Far to the north at Irbid, rocks, bottles and truncheons flew like bullets. Hundreds were arrested, scores were injured, and at least seven persons were killed...
...reelection, Romney was on the phone with New York's Rockefeller, Percy, Hatfield and Brooke; Reagan called him to discuss prospects for party unity. Later he flew to Washington to appear on Meet the Press and to confer with veteran G.O.P. strategists...
...latter was more hurt than helped by his abrasive older brother Ted. President Kennedy's former speechwriter, who flew in from the East to campaign for Phil and immediately got into a shouting match with the Omaha World-Herald over some disparaging remarks that Ted had made about progress in his home state in 1961. In the end, Phil lost the limelight to a G.O.P. novice, Norbert ("Nobby") Tiemann, 42, himself a Kennedy-handsome, 6-ft. 3-in. banker from Wasau (pop. 724). An unknown nine months ago, Tiemann stumped the state shaking every outstretched hand, put across his German...
...looking for their wares. In his wrecked work shop, Fashion Designer Emilio Pucci, who said his loss may reach $1,000,000, shrugged, "I personally will begin again"; but he noted sadly that many of Florence's artisans could never recover without outside aid. Meanwhile, Italian helicopters flew"800 missions a day to supply badly needed water and food. In Florence and its outskirts, Italian troops destroyed the carcasses of some 4,000 animals with flamethrowers...
...disclosed problems with Agena's propellant pump. Instead, the astronauts made another and equally remarkable rendezvous-with the moon's circular shadow, which was racing across the Pacific at 1,060 m.p.h. during Saturday's eclipse of the sun. In the brief seven seconds that they flew through the corridor of total eclipse, the astronauts shot movies and still pictures of the blacked-out solar disk. Then, standing in the open hatch of his orbiting platform, Astronaut Aldrin shot pictures of the earth and the stars for 2 hours and 28 minutes-longer than anyone has spent...