Word: flew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were disbanded, Winnie came back to Miami with some fellow pilots, a glamorous, tanned, confident crowd who lived in a group house and gave flying lessons. "I thought, 'I can do that, I can do anything I put my mind to,' " Janet recalled, "because those ladies went out and flew planes...
...after day, the question flew at her: Why haven't you arrested the sheik? As federal agents continued to round up suspects in the plot to blow up New York City, spiritual leader Omar Abdel Rahman was left untouched. Senator Alfonse D'Amato, an assassination target, was holding angry press conferences. President Clinton was getting frustrated...
...plane which flew over Tercentenary Theatre during the morning graduation exercises trailed a banner reading "NO DICE," the acronym for a student group calling itself "No Dollars Into Clark's Endowment...
...Angeles felt as strongly last week that a Perot clone had arrived in city hall. Immediately after conservative millionaire Riordan won his first election by defeating liberal city councilman Michael Woo 54% to 46%, he was already displaying a get-under-the-hood-and fix-it itchiness. He flew to Sacramento to start hammering state politicians for help in reducing the city's budget deficit, which may reach $500 million this year. He declared he would solve problems by using "simple management techniques," and he did not apologize for pouring $6 million of his own money into a campaign...
Gloria Steinem flew to Texas all the way from New York City to call Senate candidate Kay Bailey Hutchison a "female impersonator." Actress Annie Potts of Designing Women pooh-poohed the Republican's vague stance on abortion rights, saying, "She's just the same old thing in a skirt." Columnist Molly Ivins hung the epithet "Breck girl" on her, comparing the way the candidate tossed her blond hair to the slow-motion antics of models in the shampoo commercial. But Hutchison, the Texas state treasurer, survived those and many other attacks. Last week she defeated Democrat Bob Krueger, winning...