Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trip started on Sept. 1 when the 16 players, newlywed Coach Edie MacAusland Mabrey and new Assistant Coach Brooke Watson flew into Shannon. After a day of rest, the team began a hectic schedule of traveling, afternoon practices, and night games. The first stop was Cork, and from there they traveled to Dublin for a few days. A three-day stint in Belfast followed, then on to Causeway and back home...
...made sure the family's flag flew on national holidays, and at sunset, his mother remembers, "it always had to be folded just right." At 17 he was doing chores for the Reagan presidential campaign...
...solve the problem, Envoy Habib flew to Tel Aviv for a talk with Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, who has directed the Israeli military operation in Lebanon. At the meeting, Sharon, who refuses to describe the removal of the P.L.O. guerrillas from West Beirut as an "evacuation," asked Habib bluntly, "How is the expulsion going?" Replied Habib: "The evacuation is proceeding according to plan." Habib then asked Sharon to make sure that...
Wills, on a Dodger team scrambling for runs, made base stealing a respectable tactic, easing the way for the records of Brock and Henderson. Brock, who flew to Milwaukee last week to help Henderson celebrate, notes that the psychology of theft has not changed a bit since his own day: "What separates the great base stealer from the rest is arrogance. You have to eliminate all fear and declare war on the entire league." The guileless Henderson cites a less bellicose reason. Says he: "I've loved to steal bases since I was a little kid. That...
...electric horn suddenly spanked the air into a hundred pieces with one long loud blast, making everything you ever saw in a movie or a comicbook or one of your own daydreams fly apart, letting you know what both the heroes and the cowards really heard when death flew at them: WHHHHHHHONNNNNNK!" He describes a hailstorm in a forest: "Instead of whispering or talking, the woods now seemed alive with hokey B-movie jungle drums." At last they find the body, and Lachance speculates about how they must appear to the corpse, if it could see: "Like pallbearers...