Word: flew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...congressional delegation that flew into Hanoi's Noi Bai airport last week, there was an ominous familiarity about the landscape. Water-filled bomb craters still pockmarked the lush rice paddies. Camouflaged antiaircraft guns poked up their snouts on the perimeter of the landing field, where two huge Soviet An-22 transport planes rested. But on the ground, all the reminders of that painful land war in Southeast Asia were washed away in atmospherics of amiability. Said Tran Quang Co, head of the North American section of Viet Nam's foreign ministry, prior to a welcoming banquet for the American visitors...
...course, Christina's in a state. The other day she disappeared and ended up in England for a day, and then flew back to Athens again. Where she'll be tomorrow is anybody's guess. So my problem is, what should she do? Go back to Sergei and his mother and settle down in Moscow and wash his dirty socks? We're also worried that he even might be a Russian spy or something. It would be different, of course, if he were a James Bond or somebody of that ilk, but he doesn...
...movie. In the effort to create as many suspects as possible, Kershner has directed most of his cast to come on as twitchy psychopaths. Brad Dourif, playing an ex-con chauffeur, manages to seem even more bonkers here than he did as an inmate in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest...
...Jimmy Carter thought that that would soothe A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, he was mistaken. Meany grumbled that the 6½% postal workers' settlement, rightly hailed by the Administration as an example of wage moderation, had been too low-and on hearing that, Carter flew into a rare rage. At a press conference, Marshall said that Meany's remarks had "personally disturbed" the President and that his stand could lead to "more inflationary demands." Meany's response was immediate: "I've called it as I saw it. I don't intend to change...
...20th reunion of her high school class in Los Angeles. Even though Jackie, Husband Bob and their two children had already taken their summer vacation in Alaska, they were tempted by the new low airline fares. Says Bob, an engineer, "We made our reservations 30 days early, we flew night Super Saver and we figure the four of us saved $259 off the regular fare." He adds: "This year we seem to be flying more miles than we are driving...