Word: flew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. This film version of Ken Kesey's fable about a lunatic asylum in the Pacific Northwest lacks all the subtlety and tension that marked the novel in its best moments. But it does offer a brilliant performance by Jack Nicholson perfectly cast as Randle Patrick McMurphy, the hard-living con man who sparks the inmates to rebel against the psychologically castrating Head Nurse only to find himself out-conned...
Both players drove into the middle of the hogsback fairway of Shinnecock's majestic final hole. Hutcheon, though, flew the green badly with his second and was staring at the prospect of a bogey. Faced with a chip that required the touch of a Swiss watchmaker, Hutcheon cooly pitched out of the cloying rough and watched his ball run over 70 feet of green and cascade into the cup. Hutcheon's victory gave the British team its final point of the competition...
...Sunday, Aug. 28, three of the Ribicoff committee's staff men flew to Atlanta. They had been dispatched to interview former Lance associates and examine bank records, since the committee in the past had been embarrassed by its lack of independent knowledge. Only a month earlier the committee had given Lance what one member termed "our Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval." The investigators found what they considered evidence of potentially criminal behavior by Lance as a banker. By midweek they notified Ribicoff and Percy...
...Friday, Sept. 2, Ribicoff ended a California vacation and flew to Washington. He was briefed by the investigators on Saturday morning, then phoned Percy in Illinois. After hearing the new evidence, Percy agreed with Ribicoff: the President should be told. They sent a letter by messenger to Camp David, Md., requesting a meeting. It was set for Monday, Labor...
...Management and Budget? With the aw-shucks, bear-like amiability that has characterized his conduct throughout the exhaustive inquiries into his tangled financial dealings, the beleaguered Bert merely grinned and replied, "I've given no thought to that. I'm there to do a job." Then he flew off to his vacation home on Sea Island, Ga., for the long Labor Day weekend...