Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shouts and powder flew in every direction, in every face. My dead-eye Minnesota aim, cultivated through many years of schoolyard skirmishes, clobbered numerous California-bred friends. The practiced Yankee Yardlings had met up with the sun-belt greenhorns in a frenzied free-for-all that only Mother Nature could have provoked...
Francis R. Scobee, 46, who flew combat mission in Vietnam, commanded the flight and was making his second space shuttle mission...
...They say every dog has his day," said retired Lieut. Colonel Richard E. Cole of San Antonio. "Well, we had ours." Cole was one of the Army airmen who flew with James H. Doolittle on April 18, 1942. That was the day the U.S. put 16 B-25s over Tokyo and four other Japanese cities in a raid that did little damage but -- pardon the French -- boosted the hell out of post- Pearl Harbor morale. "My wife is always saying 'What's wrong with you?' " Cole went on. "You see, every time I hear...
They looked up the day the warbirds flew over Florida, however. No one can help but pay attention to the racket of pistons firing individually, a sound gone out of modernity. Nowadays jets scream, and cars, even motorcycles, hum. A spectator, Cal Buchanan from Orlando, a "grease monkey from way back yonder," ventured that "I came along when you could hear what was wrong with a motor 90% of the time. Good ears and 50 cents'll get you a cup of coffee these days, if you shop around." As a gorgeous P-38 rattled down the field, Buchanan called...
When Shultz flew home to Washington last week to report to the President, the first item on his agenda had little to do with his travels. The Secretary firmly told the President in private that he opposed a national security directive, signed by Reagan on Nov. 1, authorizing lie-detector tests for thousands of Government employees and private contractors who handle sensitive information. Questioned by reporters, Shultz said that he considers polygraph testing ineffective, that it often implicates innocent people and that trained spies can easily avoid detection. Asked whether he would ever take such a test, the Secretary replied...