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Word: flew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the three men from New Mexico flew their balloon to France, the prophecies of Jules Verne were invoked. No one said a word about the American, Mark Twain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 18, 1978 | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...almost a century ago, in Tom Sawyer Abroad, he described how his hero boarded a balloon in the Midwest and flew across the Atlantic with his loyal comrade, Huck Finn. Don't journalists read Mark Twain any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 18, 1978 | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

Instead the ancient Douglas headed north over the Gulf of Mexico, flying through the night with no approved flight plan or warning lights and maintaining radio silence. Neither the Federal Aviation Administration nor the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) picked it up on radar as it flew low into dense fog over Louisiana. The foreign invaders might have escaped detection altogether but for the fact that their plane lost power and crash-landed in the trees near Farmerville, just south of the Arkansas-Louisiana border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Defense Is Not Ironclad | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...Carter flew by helicopter to Washington to take her husband's place at the party which featured entertainment by country singer Willie Nelson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Works on Plan for Further Talks | 9/14/1978 | See Source »

...dynamite is not dangerous, police insisted, but they alerted patrols on highways around St. Louis to search for the potentially explosive car. They made more than 200 phone calls to those who flew into the airport that night, but all in vain. Until the elderly couple discovered their plight while watching television, Canine Commander Lieut. John Reeg had only the traditional explanation, the one about communications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Dynamite Mixup | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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