Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...audience that Reagan was really addressing was back home, in the U.S. Congress--and it was less receptive than the grateful Grenadians. Reagan's extravagant, minutely orchestrated drop-in on Grenada (the White House flew in two limousines, the President's drinking water, two bomb- sniffing dogs and 28 toilets) became the colorful centerpiece of a campaign to sell what has become known as the Reagan Doctrine: U.S. support for "freedom fighters" battling Soviet-backed governments around the globe. Indeed, Reagan's speech at Queen's Park went beyond praise of the newfound freedom in Grenada, and railed against...
...part of a U.S. bid to solve the crisis, Philip Habib, 65, a specially appointed U.S. envoy, late last week flew at President Reagan's behest to Manila. Habib's mission: to find some way of reconciling the opposing Aquino and Marcos political camps. On arrival, the diplomat immediately closeted himself for the weekend with members of the U.S. embassy staff...
Once committed to the presidential race, Aquino quickly showed a steely determination that belied her reserved, soft-spoken manner. She displayed remarkable stamina. The galvanic response that she elicited from ordinary Filipinos as she flew from town to town during the 57-day campaign came to be known as "people power." Now a battle-hardened political veteran, Aquino intends to harness the same force in her dangerous and quixotic struggle to occupy Malacanang Palace...
Toad processed words like a demon. His fingers flew across the keys, and the words arrayed themselves on a magic screen before him. Here was a miracle that imitated the very motions of his brain, that teleported paragraphs here and there--no, there!--as quickly as a mind flicking through alternatives. Prose with the speed of light, and lighter than air! Toad could lift 10 lbs. of verbiage, at a whim, from his first page and transport it to the last, and then (hmmm), back again...
Ronald Reagan was first informed about the impending firing as he flew to Houston to memorialize the astronauts killed in the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. When the rather unseemly and unnecessary fiasco was announced last week, the White House moved quickly to distance itself from it. Said White House Spokesman Larry Speakes: "It's Hodel's deal. The President knew about it, but he didn't do anything because he didn't have to do anything...