Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, thanks to the efforts of Rabinowitz and the Harvard Police, the flag was recaptured and again flew over the Hillel entrance by 2 p.m. yesterday...
...previous novels about the 50th state (Hawaii), Palestine (The Source) and South Africa (The Covenant). True, he was not permitted to spend a year or two, as he usually does, at the site of his new novel, but he did visit Poland twelve times. Once, he says, he flew all over the country in a helicopter "at a very low altitude." He seems to have landed on a mountain of historical research commissioned from "local authorities" in Poland...
...Asian heavens have revealed many omens to South Korea this year: last winter a North Korean pilot defected to Seoul in his MIG 19; last May a Chinese airliner was hijacked on a domestic flight and forced to land in South Korea: over the summer a Chinese pilot flew his MIG to Seoul, touching off sirens and momentary panic, but the pilot was soon on his way to Taiwan: and in September the Soviet Union shot down a Korean jumbo passenger jet that strayed across Soviet territory on the last leg of its long journey from New York. The Korean...
...dictate to our minds. In truth, the passengers of flight 007 were victims of a war--the Cold War. When civilians die in El Salvador or Afghanistan, our hurt is tempered by the notion that the dead were in the middle of a war zone. The Korean Airlines jet flew into the most subtle and ultimately pernicious war zone of them all--the gulf that separates East and West. As tension mounts and technology becomes increasingly difficult to control, incidents like last week's will multiply. Then the resolve required to follow a moderate course will crumble and the unthinkable...
...capital, a twin-engine Cessna dropped a bomb near the home of Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto, who happened to be in Panama City at a meeting of Latin American foreign ministers. The bomb missed D'Escoto's house, no one was injured and the plane flew off into the predawn darkness. A few minutes later a second Cessna appeared, over Augusto César Sandino Airport, about eight miles outside the city. A 500-lb. bomb landed near the hangar of Aeronica, the national airline, causing minor damage, and Nicaraguan soldiers reportedly opened fire with antiaircraft...