Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...together? Is it going to stay together?" It did, and he did, but only narrowly. He won by a mere .16 sec. in the closest finish in the Brickyard's history. But for Johncock, there was little cause to savor the $290,609 victory. After the race, he flew to Hastings, Mich., and the hospital bedside of his comatose mother Frances, 77. Hours later, she died, never having learned of her son's triumph...
Last April, President Bok flew to California to meet with industry representatives and officials from four other major universities in order to draw up a comprehensive set of guidelines for regulating academic-industrial ties. Most officials feel that the resulting guidelines were left deliberately vague to allow each university to develop its own. As Daniel Braton, chairman of the department of Cellular and Molecular Biology says, "These guidelines are so vague and general that they merely represent an attempt on the part of the administration and industry to avoid getting anything down in terms of firm guidelines for work...
...from the west and from the south, their pilots showing little regard for safety as they tried to get at the fleet. In groups of up to three at a time, they raced the full length of the San Carlos anchorage on their low-level attacks. At times they flew so low that spray flecked their canopies...
...pilot flew so low over the frigate Antelope that his aircraft scraped against the ship's mast. A 500-lb. bomb penetrated the frigate's midsection, where it failed to detonate. The ship limped slowly up the Bay of San Carlos, giving off smoke, and British bomb-disposal experts were sent aboard to see if they could defuse the bomb. The main assignment fell to Staff Sergeant James Prescott, 37, of the Royal Engineers. "One twitch, Dad, and you're dead," he had once told his father about his work. The bomb exploded and he died instantly...
...visit at a time of war, but a great deal was at stake. Very quickly, the British hierarchy launched a shuttle diplomacy effort designed to counteract the advice it knew the Pope was receiving from the ever cautious Curia. Archbishops Thomas Winning of Glasgow and Derek Worlock of Liverpool flew to Rome and at a hastily arranged luncheon in the Pope's private apartments, made a carefully prepared appeal, but it was soon clear that they were preaching to the converted. "I am convinced myself," the Pope said, according to one participant...