Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bill and pointed it toward the female, so it could be seen against the background of its golden crest." The courting creature also emitted a series of odd cries while quivering its crest seductively. Diamond watched for 20 min utes, but "the male did not succeed and the female flew...
Engle, acting on an impulse no test pilot could resist-with Houston's O.K., of course-flew Columbia himself during the final turn, rather than letting the computer do it. With a fighter-like maneuver, he put the ship right on line with Runway 23, the same one used on the last trip. After the troubled flight, the smooth touchdown was joyfully anticlimactic. Columbia slid to earth more gently than many a commercial jet. Cheers rose up from the 250,000 people gathered on the desert floor for the homecoming, and controllers in Houston lit up their traditional victory...
...September, as both sides prepared for a further INS hearing, Macias-Rosales flew to Miami and went to visit Cindy, who had been living for more than 18 months in a "neutral" foster home in Fort Lauderdale. Says Macias-Rosales' attorney, Elizabeth Baker of Miami: "It was a very emotional reunion. Cindy read to her and showed off her dolls." Later they went for a walk. And never returned. Subsequently, Attorney Baker confirmed that Cindy was in a "nice quiet place" in Mexico with her mother and a younger brother and sister. The Johnses and their attorney are outraged...
Suddenly, two chartered helicopters flew down from out of the blue to land behind the factory walls. Out of the choppers came a team of hired commandos in blue uniforms and white gloves, their heads covered by black balaclava helmets. "It was like a scene from a Hollywood jailbreak movie," recalled flabbergasted Union Convener Dennis Barry. As picketers climbed garbage cans to peer over the wall in amazement, the commandos dashed inside the factory, carried the six motors outside on pushcarts and flew off with them in the blue-and-white Bell Jet-Ranger III helicopters...
With just 36 seconds remaining in the first half, Chubb took a Ferrante header and lofted a 25-yd. rocket which flew just under the crossbar for her first goal of the season and a 2-0 Harvard lead at intermission...