Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case of Andrew Thornton is still hazy, but it appears that he used extra fuel bladders to equip his Cessna, a favorite of smugglers because its ability to fly slowly permits accurate drops. He then flew eight hours from Colombia to Tennessee before jumping. Along the way, he apparently dropped 200 lbs. of cocaine by parachute in the vicinity of Georgia's Chattahoochee River, where it landed in a tree and was recovered by narcotics agents...
Several players, led by linebacker Tom Dobbs, busted through the Dartmouth blocking wall and smothered the Green's punt. The ball flew out of the end zone, giving Harvard a safety and cutting Dartmouth's lead...
...shuttle missions were tightly orchestrated, with half the team working in mission control and the other half aboard the shuttle simulator. Those in the shuttle flew the craft, performed scientific experiments (one had to take a sample of his own blood and test it for glucose), and went outside to complete extra-vehicular tasks using the Five Degrees of Freedom Chairs and the MMU. The counselors agree that the adults were more serious and professional about their tasks than the kids...
...since 1976, when its commandos raided Entebbe airport in Uganda to rescue a planeload of passengers being held hostage by Palestinian gunmen, had Israel launched an operation so far from home. This time, the Israelis flew some 1,500 miles across the Mediterranean, twice refueling in midair. The Israelis announced that the raid was in reprisal for the murder by terrorists a week earlier of three Israeli civilians on a yacht in the port of Larnaca, Cyprus. The Israelis were convinced that the attack, which took place on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, had been carried...
...said, 'Come on, now. You've got the wrong guy.' " In fact, he had a longtime male lover, and he made no secret of his homosexuality to the show-business friends whose discretion he knew he could count on. His secret became public in July, when he flew to Paris hoping for treatment with an experimental AIDS drug not then available in the U.S. His illness had progressed too far. Several days later, he returned to Los Angeles on a stretcher, in a Boeing 747 that he had chartered...