Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frank Iarossi, president of Exxon Shipping Co., flew from his Houston home to Valdez and by Friday night took command of the cleanup. By then the slick was spreading and chemical dispersants could not be used because the seas were too calm for them to be effective. On Sunday winds picked up to 70 m.p.h., hindering boats from booming and skimming the oil. The winds drove the oil into a froth known as mousse; workers who tried to apply a napalm-like substance to the oil and ignite it with laser beams did not succeed...
...until Wednesday was a ragtag fleet in full operation. A team from Washington, consisting of Secretary of Transportation Samuel Skinner, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator William Reilly and Coast Guard Commandant Paul Yost, flew to Alaska at midweek and reported back to Bush that the cleanup was going well enough that there was no need for the Federal Government to take over. That seemed to be a polite way of saying there was no way for the feds to speed things, so Washington might as well stay out and avoid sharing the blame for what the President called a major tragedy...
...spring break. The Cambridge denizens--including Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence and Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57--traveled to Minnesota for the Harvard hockey team's appearance in the NCAA Final Four and were pleasantly surprised to see Harvard emerge victorious. The deans even flew back to Boston on the same early-morning plane as the hockey players...
Ueberroth, who flew to New York late Tuesday night from his California home, began personal negotiations with Lorenzo early Wednesday morning and continued them until about 8 p.m., resuming talks early yesterday...
Some other less formal honors for Harvard included a congratulatory message by the pilot of the Northwest Airlines plane that flew the team back to Boston, and a banner on the facade of The Coop congratulating the team...