Word: flew
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While both sides agreed on the goal of free trade, working out the details proved to be maddeningly complex. Just three weeks ago, Simon Reisman, Canada's chief negotiator, stormed out of the talks in Washington and flew home. The major sticking point was agreement on a mechanism to resolve trade conflicts. At Mulroney's insistence, the Canadians returned to the bargaining table, but the wrangling continued until the deadline day. Finally Mulroney's chief of staff, Derek Burney, asked U.S. Treasury Secretary James Baker when would be a good time for the Prime Minister to call the White House...
From preflight preparation to landing, piloting NASA's specially equipped ER- 2 high-altitude research aircraft is not for the fainthearted. The three pilots who flew the twelve solo missions through the Antarctic ozone hole found the task grueling. An hour before zooming into the stratosphere, each had to don a bright orange pressure suit and begin breathing pure oxygen to remove nitrogen from the blood and tissues, thus preventing the bends, which can result from rapid reductions in air pressure. Once airborne, "you have to have patience," says Pilot Ron Williams, who flew the first mission. "You're strapped...
...Lovell, was a high-fashion beauty who strode about three continents in slacks. She was tough and unusually strong and could ride anything. More practically, she understood horses. In the '20s and again in the '50s and '60s, she was the pre-eminent race trainer in East Africa. She flew her own bush-taxi service for only a few years, in the '30s, but was a & fearless pilot who was the first to scout elephants commercially from the air, over country where a forced landing generally meant death. In 1936 she became the first person to fly solo from England...
...THIS summer, long after I should have, I joined up with a friend, John, in a Bonnie-Clyde duo of danger. And by the end of the summer, I could hold a lighter onto a fuse until the sparks flew, savor the smell of burnt-out shells and take cover from an oncoming patrol...
...left the U.S. last Saturday and flew back to Rome after a one-day visit to northern Canada, the Pope could count both achievements and disappointments. The crowds, as always, had been moved, almost visibly uplifted, by his appearances. Still, the numbers along his motorcade routes were often surprisingly small, thinned perhaps by fears of the crush and heavy security, or the it's-on-TV-anyway mentality; even on his visit to Detroit, only 30,000 turned out in the largely Polish community of Hamtramck. The Pontiff had made special contact for the first time with varied groups...