Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dark, snowy Hida peaks had gone into another weather, but in the valley the day was warm, and a butterfly winged wobbly through an open window of the slow coach, turned a circle and flew on out the other side. Many things-insects, machines, workers-chugged slowly...
...Parisians themselves helped to twist my fruitless venture into a routine exercise in humiliation by placing me at the mercy of either their effusive kindness or black hearted contempt. One garrulous shopkeeper held me captive with a rapid-fire series of cheerful comments and questions, most of which flew past my comprehension. A neighboring grocer whacked my hand and swept me out of the store when I squeezed a tomato. The fact that I was unable to find simple and moderate good-naturedness among the Parisians left me jangled and teary-eyed at the end of each...
Still, the experience managed to provide one eye-opener. A French magazine flew me to Lebanon to shoot a fashion layout. A kindly, graying interpreter named Lulla welcomed us in Beirut at our hotel, one of the intact few. The nearby Holiday Inn, in contrast, had been gutted, sandbagged and turned into a multi-level parking garage for combat vehicles. Lulla lived by herself in a spacious but dilapidated apartment in the center of the city. When I asked her about the small holes that riddled her blinds, she explained matter of factly that snipers were still active at night...
David McConnell, a young Irishman who had just earned an M.A. degree in geology from Oklahoma State, had tried a desperate stratagem after failing to make the cut. He and a friend flew via People from Newark to Atlantic City and back in the morning, for $23 each way. This put them on a priority list of People's incoming passengers. But, said McConnell, so many other line squatters had done the same thing that priority might not mean much. "You get rather paranoid," he said. The major gripe is that the airline does not carry over stand...
Shultz then flew to Beirut, where, during three hours of talks, Lebanese President Amin Gemayel stressed that he was adamantly opposed to Israel's redeployment plans. Gemayel fears that the move will lead to a permanent Israeli presence on Lebanese soil and give Syria an excuse to stay put as well. The Lebanese insisted that if Israel pulled back its troops without announcing a schedule for a total withdrawal, then Beirut might scuttle its accord with Jerusalem altogether...