Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Protection Service, with metal detectors, check people in a gathering who come near the President. When Reagan flew to Cancun in Mexico for the North-South summit conference last October, a ship full of Marines stood by beyond the horizon in case he might need rescue. On the Barbados trip, as ever, the President was accompanied by two doctors and four other medical personnel, while a fully equipped hospital ship floated offshore...
Maig did not return directly to Argentina. Instead, he flew to Washington and, despite his weariness, was at his desk at 8:15 on Wednesday morning. Shortly before 10, he went to the White House and for 50 minutes briefed Reagan on the state of the negotiations. After more telephone calls with Costa Mendez and Thatcher, Haig gamely announced that he would try again. From the tone of his statements, however, it was clear that he was as impatient with Britain's intransigence as he was with Argentina's. "The leaders of both countries have assured me... that...
...course of the Royal Navy paralleled that of the empire. In World War I. Britain still ruled the waves. A fleet of 1,350 vessels, including 42 battleships and battle cruisers, flew the service's white ensign. In World War II, the navy continued to be a magnificent fighting force. By V-J day in 1945, Britain had twelve major aircraft carriers, 14 battleships, 50 cruisers, 182 destroyers, 226 frigates and 97 submarines-a fleet of 586 vessels, second only to the U.S.'s total...
...emergency-room nurse from the Midwest, cannot trust herself with a handful of change near a candy machine. The couple from Park Avenue play backgammon at 7 in the morning; the amiable rotund man is a rock musician, and the lithe woman with him is his secretary, who considerately flew in yet another woman, his girlfriend, "as a reward...
...made it an unrelieved mind trip," she says. "I told him that he was going to win, and wouldn't that be wonderful after so long a time waiting for it. Talking about the Oscar was another way of not letting him fade away. When he won, I flew into his arms. He held me tight and I saw the tears in his eyes, and they told me he was overwhelmed with a sense of profound Writer Thompson happiness. 'Hell, if I hadn't won,' he said, 'I wouldn't have been able...