Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Risky Business and made him a star at 21. They sat in the cockpit of his F-14 as he swaggered through the sky in Top Gun. They perched in a pool hall and watched him wield a cue like a master swordsman in The Color of Money. They flew to the Caribbean to join him in a frothy Cocktail. They traveled with him on a cross- country journey to fraternal reconciliation in Rain Man. And with each adventure, audiences adjusted their estimation of the young man -- from Most Likely to Succeed to All-American Dreamboat to Serious Actor worth...
...myself," he says. "I want to learn. I can't sit back. I like a challenge, so I create a lot of challenges for myself." For the actor, many of his films provide the perk of being able to test himself, master a new skill. He flew in Navy jets before making Top Gun. He played serious pool for eight weeks before The Color of Money. For Cocktail he tended bar in Manhattan. He plays a race-car driver in his next movie, Days of Thunder, a spin-off from Cruise's latest perilous hobby. But for Born...
...late evening report, the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said Romanian security forces took full control yesterday of Timisoara, just 30 miles from the Yugoslav border. Ceausescu flew to Iran earlier in the day for a three-day official visit...
...Bush at his side at their joint press conference, Gorbachev said that "history" should be allowed to determine the status of the two Germanys, and he warned against any "artificial acceleration" of the "process of change." It was a telling caution coming from the Great Accelerator himself. Bush then flew off to Brussels, where he enunciated a masterpiece of gobbledygook, intended to sound receptive to German reunification someday far in the future. There was a similar better-later- than-soon tone to the endorsement that Kohl received over the weekend from the leaders of the European Community...
...mutineers' disinformation kept the government off balance. Reports trickled in that large areas of Luzon and Mindanao as well as the bustling commercial city of Cebu in the central Philippines had capitulated to the rebels. Rumors flew that Defense Secretary Fidel Ramos and armed forces Chief of Staff Renato de Villa had joined the rebellion. Ramos added to the muddle by saying nothing publicly on the matter for 212 hours. Finally he went on radio to urge: "Do not believe their propaganda. It's not true. We're fighting them. They are the enemy...