Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nightmare is that the Soviet Union and the U.S. will combine to stave off any Iraqi defeat. Said one Western diplomat: "The two superpowers are telling Iran it can't win the war. Their presence here has become a sort of Iron Curtain." This spring the Iranian Foreign Minister flew to Moscow to plead for Soviet neutrality in the war, but he came back with no such accord. Last month the Kuwaitis chartered three freighters from the Soviets to carry and protect goods passing through the Persian Gulf on the way to Iraq. The Iranians believe the U.S. is giving...
Three kids, two boys and a girl, 4-H and Future Farmers of America, calving and irrigating pretty much ate up the next few years. The children grew, the wind blew, the dust flew, and, by 1973, here stood Winifred Bundy wondering what to do. She had flirted with the notion of opening a bookshop, but lacked capital. Then it was that her husband, a soft touch, took in two horrid German shepherds to board while the owners went to Europe. The dogs tormented the horses until a mare reached her limit and kicked out one dog's eye. When...
...spending the night there. A presidential candidate was asked, at point-blank range, whether he had ever committed adultery. TV newscasts and newspaper front pages were dominated for most of a week with talk of sexual dalliances, back doors and yachts to Bimini. Along with the questions that flew last week about les liaisons dangereuses of Gary Hart, a parallel debate was raging over whether the press had overstepped the bounds of propriety in trying to bring those indiscretions to light...
...point, he brought his partner Hakim to a meeting with Ghorbanifar as a translator, but since Ghorbanifar already knew Hakim and considered him an "enemy of the ((Iranian)) state," Secord dressed up the bald Hakim in a wig and glasses and passed him off as a Turk. "It flew," said Secord laconically. At another point, Secord considered Ghorbanifar so untrustworthy that he told the Iranian middleman he would recommend to the U.S. Government that Ghorbanifar be "terminated." Recounted Secord, with the barest ghost of a smile: "He misinterpreted that." The Senate Caucus Room broke up in laughter...
...MiGs arrived over Spina Bora, some 20 miles from Jalalabad, Afghanistan's fifth largest city, just before 7 a.m. Half a dozen jets flew out of the northwest, dropped parachute flares to deflect heat-seeking missiles, and then began their bombing runs. Mujahedin 12.7-mm and 14.5-mm heavy machine guns opened fire from the surrounding mountains, shooting in wide arcs across the sky. At the guerrilla base, Commander Khan Emir and about 20 of his men stood defiantly on an open knoll, firing at the jets with AK-47 assault rifles and RPG-7 grenade launchers. Other nearby guerrilla...