Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first he had to get the princess. Molly was in one of her door-slamming moods the day in 1983 that Hughes flew from his Chicago home with the Sixteen Candles script, which he had written for her and Michael Hall. Their first chat put her in better humor. She must have realized that in tastes and sensibilities, she and Hughes were about the same age: 15. "We each started to know what the other one was thinking," says Molly. "We would finish sentences for each other...
...Friday, while Mrs. Reagan made brief ceremonial visits to Malaysia and Thailand, the President flew north to the Tokyo summit. A few days earlier, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone had called on his countrymen to "pause and reflect on your own life-style" as a preliminary step toward restructuring the economy away from its dependence on exports. That was good news to the Reagan Administration, which last week reported that the March U.S. trade deficit had widened by $2 billion, to $14.5 billion, with the deficit in trade with Japan setting an all-time one-month record of $5.5 billion...
...reactor continued to burn, military helicopters reportedly flew over the site and dropped wet sand, lead and boron onto the burning reactor. Available evidence at week's end suggested that the fire was dying...
...Last year, over seven million people flew to Europe. If you compare the number of terrorist casualties, it's insignificant," Challas said...
...they flew to within 30 miles of the Libyan coast, weapons-systems officers (called whizzos), who sit beside the pilot on each F-111, went into action. They lowered the Pave Tack pods, which began sweeping the horizon first with radar and then with infrared cameras, transmitting fairly detailed pictures of the ground below to a radar-infrared scope that is like a small television screen on the aircraft's instrument panel. The whizzos knew what to look for: before taking off from England, they had thoroughly studied aerial- reconnaissance photographs of their targets. In addition, information to find...