Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Less than 65 hours before the polls opened, Thatcher flew by private jet to the seven-nation Venice summit, where the televised image of her moving easily among major world leaders was not lost on voters. At his last campaign rally, Kinnock mocked the Venice trip before a crowd in the bleak northern city of Leeds. Said he: "And now the TV spectacular to end all TV spectaculars: Venice. Cinderella on canal. She went there because somebody told her she could walk down the middle of the street...
...official Buddhist-reported cause of death was cardiac arrest and respiratory failure; the unofficial version was cirrhosis. There was no autopsy. Some, nay, many, said he drank a gallon of sake a day. They placed the body in the meditative position, packed it in salt and flew it to Vermont in a chartered Canadian Pacific Boeing 737. Until May 26, students meditated with the corpse...
...enough time. Time to think seriously is hard to come by. I have been working all this past week in Los Angeles on a new television pilot for a prime-time series. I left the taping at 4 o'clock this morning your time, chartered a plane and flew all morning to get here by 10. So I just want to tell you, if I fall asleep, don't worry, don't panic and don't disturb...
North also stood to benefit from Hakim's generosity. On May 20, 1986, a few days before North and other U.S. representatives flew to Tehran, Hakim established the Button account. (The name Belly Button, Hakim said, was the result of a joke about North. He did not elaborate.) Hakim told the congressional committees that the $200,000 was a "death benefit" for North's wife and four children. Knowing that U.S. officials are forbidden by law to accept outside contributions, Hakim says he did not inform North of the account...
DIED. Will Sampson, 53, stolid, 6-ft. 7-in. full-blooded Creek Indian actor, painter and rodeo bull rider, best known for his 1975 debut role as the silent Chief Bromden in the film One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest; of kidney failure following a successful heart-and-lung transplant; in Houston...