Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eagles' power and height proved to much for Harvard, as B.C. flew away, 15-12, 15-7, 15-7. Northeastern also jumped into the act, pounding the Crimson...
...security shroud was virtually the only impediment to goodwill in the first stages of the trip. Even as he flew toward Miami, the Pope emphasized that he would show a conciliatory face to the complex, fractious and independent-minded American Catholic Church he was about to encounter. "I am convinced that the American church is a good church, a very good church," John Paul told journalists, in informal remarks aboard the papal jetliner Spoleto. He downplayed the importance of dissident voices that he was expected to hear on such sensitive issues in the U.S. church as marriage for priests, homosexuality...
...Pope then flew on to Columbia, S.C., where he had a private meeting with former President Jimmy Carter and Wife Rosalynn. (The session was canceled after Carter learned that his brother Billy was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer, then rescheduled at the last minute.) In Columbia the Pontiff continued his outreach to America's non-Catholics as he conferred with a gathering of Protestant and Orthodox leaders...
...gradually takes on an awful inevitability. Having risked everything to escape servitude and degradation and having tasted nearly a month of freedom, Sethe saw four men on horseback approaching to reclaim her and her children: "And if she thought anything, it was No. No. Nono. Nonono. Simple. She just flew. Collected every bit of life she had made, all the parts of her that were precious and fine and beautiful, and carried, pushed, dragged them through the veil, out, away, over there where no one could hurt them." If she had had her way at that mad moment, Sethe would...
...mile of dark water, which would have to be split with one oar in a useless boat against a current dedicated to the Mississippi hundreds of miles away." Here are Sethe, Denver and Beloved enjoying a rare moment of pleasurable abandon on a frozen lake: "Their skirts flew like wings and their skin turned pewter in the cold and dying light...