Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush flew to Illinois to press his campaign forthe 82 GOP delegates at stake in the state'sprimary. And he quickly took up a new issue,saying he was "tired of being embarrassed" byscandals surrounding public officials, though henamed no names...
...days the rumors flew between the U.S. and Panama: a major shake-up was expected momentarily in the troubled Latin country. At 5:30 p.m. last Thursday, President Eric Arturo Delvalle, 51, appeared on nationwide television ahead of the evening news. Reading from a script, Delvalle told stunned viewers that he had asked for the resignation of General Manuel Antonio Noriega, 50, the military strongman who has run Panama for the past five years. Delvalle said he had requested Noriega to "voluntarily step aside" while the U.S. investigated drug-trafficking charges that federal grand juries in Miami and Tampa...
...underscored the fact that for some participants the Games can present a wholly unathletic set of opportunities. First the Rumanians: three speed skaters and a coach slipped away the night after opening ceremonies, before any of them competed. A few days later two Chinese speed skaters and a coach flew home, again before racing. Injuries, explained Chinese officials. Then there was the emigration of Soviets en masse from Calgary: 55 left prematurely, some of them ski jumpers returned to sender because, a Soviet official said, "as the competition was postponed, they could not participate anymore." Canadian immigration authorities...
Worst Press Box: Yale. It looks like a pub out of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." The stools are squeaky, the space is small and you spend the whole night hoping no one will steal your notes...
...straddling" a variety of issues and refusing to oppose tax increases, which eventually led to Dole's outburst. That night the Vice President appeared on the three major area stations in a half-hour "Ask George Bush" forum. On Monday, Barry Goldwater, grand old man of the right, flew to New Hampshire to endorse Bush and shoot a five-minute commercial with the candidate. "I believe in George Bush," Goldwater said in the TV spot. "He's the man to continue the conservative revolution we started 24 years...