Word: flew
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Britain was intent on pursuing the Peruvian initiative, which kept the U.S. indirectly involved in the negotiations. Secretary of State Haig showed it to British Foreign Secretary Pym in Washington. The pair discussed the ideas for four hours, before Pym flew on to the U.N. After making some changes, they sent the proposal to London. Two days later, the British responded through their Ambassador to Washington Nicholas Henderson. The collective ideas were sent on to Lima, where representatives of the Argentine junta were waiting for them...
...name instead of trying to reduce an ocean of meaning to an eyedropper. In "Clarence," she follows the thread of landscape as it spins out from the names of places. A Mayan hieroglyph means "sky", but not only sky-in the Guatemalan sky there also fly-or flew-quetzal birds, the source of ancient Indian folklore and mystery. Nye brings the bird naturally into her sky. She traces the connotations of each image down through the rest of the poem, so that the forward motion is the ideas rolling ahead on their own, not a poet who hovers...
Vinnie Martelli brought life to the Harvard offense in the sixth inning with a leadoff single. The junior promptly stole second and took third when the Ed Wilcox throw flew into the outfield...
Moreover, Argentina is one of the biggest borrowers on world money markets, owing about $34 billion, and it does not want to lose its credit rating with international moneymen. Just after the crisis started, a team of the country's bankers flew to the U.S., where their country owes $9.2 billion, to reassure ten American banks. The U.S. officials listened politely, but remained nervous nonetheless. Said one financier, whose bank is owed more than $1 billion: "The longer this crisis goes on, the worse things are going...
Crimson expectations flew high before the contest. During Harvard's roll, its weaknesses had been camouflaged and the team was playing well. It had displayed a certain indisposition--in wins over Brown and Delaware--to put teams away once it had printed them down. But this inability could be explained by the abundance of youth on the roster and remedied with experience...