Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...able to interview many of the hostages who had been released. But when Flight 847 suddenly took off for Beirut again, Borrell found himself returning to that dangerous and frustrating city, which he had left only two months ago after an 18-month assignment. To get to Beirut, Borrell flew first to Larnaca, Cyprus, then boarded a ferry to Junieh, a small port just north of Beirut. After finally arriving in the Lebanese capital by taxi, he quickly established contact with West Beirut sources by telephone and pieced together the various strands of the complicated story for this week...
...Flight 847 in Athens a week earlier, at the end of a three-week vacation in Europe, because another flight had been canceled. He is an assistant professor of neurology, she a psychiatric nurse who is seven months pregnant. After she was released by the hijackers in Algiers, she flew to the U.S. to await news of her husband at the home of his parents in Lexington, Mass. In chaotic Beirut last week, Arthur Toga, 32, tried to describe his feelings. "I fear for her, not knowing about my well-being, so I think about that a great deal...
...entries came in from Maine and Montana, Bangladesh and Britain, Italy and Iran, South Africa and Saudi Arabia and Yugoslavia. There were big planes folded from 3-ft. sheets of heavy poster paper and little ones from bits of waxy British toilet tissue. One anxious aeronautics engineer flew in from Kansas to hand-deliver his delicate creations, while another tucked his into a cereal box insulated by stale flakes of Corn Total. A third, with touching trust in the U.S. Postal Service, simply scrawled the contest address across the wings of his plane and plastered a stamp onto its nose...
...Host David Hartman and his producers watch Today's resurgence and the evolving changes at Morning News with practiced calm. Though Hartman flew to New Delhi three weeks ago to interview Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, McGrady has no plans to copy Today's weeklong jaunts away from the studio. "Whenever you're in trouble, you travel," she says. "We still go out, but we don't need to do it in such...
...with American Ballet Theater. The exhausted ballerina had already danced her way through highlights reprising her glittering career. "With everything I did there were wonderful memories," said Gregory, 38, after a 15-minute standing ovation. "At one point I got tired, but then I got a second wind and flew through the rest of the performance." Days later, she still had not landed. "I haven't been able to sleep," she said. "Maybe by the weekend...