Word: flew
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...second goal--on a shot that flew past reserve goalie Dickie McEvoy with three minutes gone in overtime--gave the Golden Knights a stunning 5-4 upset of the nationally-ranked Crimson and ended Harvard's seven-game winning streak...
...retiring to Ilocos Norte, his home province in the northern Philippines, but had been discouraged from doing so by his family and by the new government. At 9:05 p.m., four American helicopters picked up the President, Imelda and a contingent of relatives and aides, including General Ver, and flew them to the U.S. air base...
...celebrated tribute to the Royal Air Force fighter pilots who won the 48-day Battle of Britain in 1940, thus thwarting plans for a Nazi invasion of England. The backbone of the R.A.F. was the agile Spitfire, the speedy (364 m.p.h.), quick-turning, British-built fighter plane that literally flew circles around enemy aircraft...
This season, the Crimson (19-6-1 overall) has already swept Colgate with a 7-2 road win--in which a season-high 54 shots flew off Harvard sticks--and a 5-1 victory in Bright...
More than a week after Iran's surprise Feb. 9 invasion, the initial progress of the Iraqi counteroffensive was painfully slow. Iraqi tanks on the open salt flats were hampered by the marshy, rain-soaked terrain. Pilots, seeking to avoid loss of aircraft, flew too high for effective bombing. Only with the aid of intense cover fire from helicopter gunships and rocket launchers, whose missiles threw up sheets of flame in the Iranian lines, did the Iraqis advance at all. Confronted by this "moving wall of fire," as one eyewitness described it, the 50,000-man invasion force took huge...