Word: flew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Tehran's airport reopened, a jetliner chartered from Pan American World Airways picked up 154 people and flew them to West Germany. Two jetliners, capable of carrying 400 people each will continue the evacuation today, Carter said...
...Great Leap Outward that he conceived, planned and executed for China after decades of xenophobic isolation. It marks the first official visit to the U.S. by a top-level Chinese leader since the Communist takeover in 1949. Nearly five years ago, when he was China's Deputy Premier, Teng flew to New York to address the U.N. General Assembly, but he was not an official visitor; Washington and Peking did not have full diplomatic relations. This time Teng rates the complete ceremonial treatment. He is to spend at least five hours with President Carter during three sessions at the White...
...Washington, where Kings, Prime Ministers and Presidents are routinely received with equanimity bordering on boredom, Teng's arrival provoked the keenest excitement. Not since Nikita Khrushchev flew in from Moscow to take a crack at detente 20 years ago has a state visit aroused so much exhilaration and frenzied agitation. As 160 hand-sewn red-and-gold Chinese flags blossomed atop lampposts along the route of Teng's motorcade, a White House task force labored to provide a memorable reception for Teng and his entourage of 75 (key members: Foreign Affairs Minister Huang Hua, Vice Premier Fang Yi and Foreign...
...Egypt, where the Shah had flown his Boeing 707 jet after leaving Tehran, Sadat was a gracious host. He and his wife Jihan flew in planeloads of guests for formal dinners at Aswan's Oberoi Hotel in honor of the Shah and his glamorous, chain-smoking Empress Farah. By day the royal couple toured the nearby temples of Philae and listened politely to lectures on Egyptian archaeology. Sadat saw the Shah off to Morocco, on the next leg of his hastily drawn itinerary, with a kiss on each cheek and a 16-gun salute...
...inspection by East German guards at the platform gate. Ten minutes after the train arrived, Stiller and his family got off at the Zoological Garden station, the first main stop in West Berlin. From there, waiting West German agents rushed them to Tempelhof Airport. An American military jet flew the three Frankfurt, where West German intelligence agents installed them in a safe house...