Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finest decoy makers were explaining their techniques to a rapt audience. "Think egg, think oval, think round, think pleasant," said Tan Brunet, a championship carver from Galliano, La. "A bird has no corners." As he talked, a neighbor, Jimmie Vizier, another prizewinning carver, addressed a block of tupelo. Shavings flew. Brunet chalked a map of the United States on a blackboard, understandably skewing the southern dip of Louisiana so that it was more prominent than that of Texas, than that of Florida. He explained migratory patterns, different woods, paints, patterns of feathers, and as his listeners took notes, he threw...
...theories about the events that led to the attack. One explanation appeared last June in the British magazine Defence Attaché. According to the anonymous author, the U.S. accidentally triggered the tragedy by using the airliner to gather intelligence about Soviet air defenses. The plane, the writer contended, intentionally flew over Soviet territory in order to test the country's reflexes as the space shuttle Challenger and a U.S. Ferret-D electronic data-gathering satellite observed from above...
...relatively experienced crew had been chosen for the critical mission. Commander Frederick Hauck, 43, had been the pilot of the seventh shuttle flight. Allen flew on the fifth voyage, when he had been unable to take a scheduled space stroll. Gardner, 36, who had been on the eighth mission, would accompany Allen on the rescue space walk. Only Pilot David Walker, 40, and Anna Fisher, 35, were rookies. In a program that trumpets its firsts, Fisher was proudly presented as the first mother in space; married to another astronaut, William Fisher, she gave birth to Daughter Kristin in July...
...just after dusk when the French-built Falcon 20 flew over the presidential palace and the adjacent U.S. ambassador's residence in the Beirut suburb of Baabda. But then the plane took a second turn over the compound, and Lebanese soldiers, suspecting a terrorist attack, opened fire with antiaircraft guns. Fortunately they missed their target, a private plane owned by the Saudi Arabian Golden Contracting Co. The pilot had veered off course while approaching Beirut Airport. Aerial traffic controllers were able to guide the jet to a safe landing...
...took a taxi in New Delhi to the U.S. embassy, where she asked American officials for asylum. The Soviets had allowed her to visit India in order to take home the ashes of her common-law husband, who had died of a respiratory disease. After asylum was granted, she flew to New York, where she greeted reporters at the airport with "Hello there, everybody." She explained her electrifying defection by declaring that in the U.S. she would seek "the self-expression that has been denied me so long in Russia...