Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Early in 1986, according to the Post, after McFarlane left the Administration, he and NSC Staffer Oliver North flew to London to meet Kimche. They were joined by Nimrodi and Ghorbanifar. The London meeting purportedly ended in a stalemate after the Americans demanded the hostages be released before any more arms were shipped to Iran. Nevertheless, last spring NSC's new chief, John Poindexter, instructed McFarlane and North to fly first to Israel, where they boarded a plane carrying U.S. weapons, and then to Iran...
...description might be a passage from Joseph Conrad: "One after the other, we heard what sounded like shots from a cannon. I counted: there were six of them. It was the vertical suspensions snapping: they snapped neatly, at the level of the track, and the stumps, in the backlash, flew up toward...
...long as the deep secret was kept -- even from most of the U.S. intelligence community -- the maneuver in one sense worked. Iran apparently leaned on Lebanese terrorists to set free three American hostages, the latest of whom, David Jacobsen, flew home to the U.S. last week for a Rose Garden meeting with Ronald Reagan. But once the broad outlines of the incredible story became known, the consequences were dire. The Administration appeared to have violated at least the spirit, and possibly the letter, of a long succession of U.S. laws that are intended to stop any arms transfers, direct...
After making a hasty retreat up a nearby escalator, the two rebels returned and were confronted once more. This time they were ready. "You Russian agents, we'll show you!" vowed one as fists flew. Security guards finally quelled the outbreak...
...fans are not yet ready to hear that the longing may be better than the winning; the shiny faces of Jesse Orosco, Gary Carter and Knight are too vivid. But losing can be compelling too, when Boston is in form. Late after the final game, a bottle flew out of the night. Players being expendable by then, it naturally caught Traveling Secretary Jack Rogers on the bean. He led them home in an ambulance...