Word: flew
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...move is meant to break up stratification in the houses by sprinkling the College's diverse elements among the various houses. It also flew in the face of Undergraduate Council proposals seeking to increase the amount of choice first-year students have in selecting their upper-class house...
...Charles to Boston and back, feeling the swing of the boat cast a therapeutic rhythm back into my days. I learned to tell Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 from No. 2; I fell in love with an Austrian expressionist named Fgon Schiele; I danced so hard the earrings flew off my head at a formal in the Fogg Museum...
...caught on to Naruhito's interest almost at once. The Owadas were besieged. Masako-san was tough with reporters, often demanding their business cards, and even slamming her hand against photographers' lenses. As celebrities before her have learned, retaliatory action doesn't do much good. By the time she flew off to Oxford in 1988 for two years' study assigned by the Foreign Ministry, a reporter had rented a room across the street from her house for snooping purposes, and 50 of his colleagues were clamoring around her at the airport...
...heading for Sudan. The embassy sent an urgent message informing the State Department that the sheik had been given a visa by mistake. Khartoum officials, who hoped to snag the sheik and revoke the visa, thought he would leave for the U.S. on a specific flight. But the sheik flew to Pakistan instead...
Russians and other Europeans see another good reason for delay: Milosevic's reaction to the Bosnian Serbs' refusal to follow his instructions. After the vote in Pale, Milosevic stalked out, flew back to Belgrade and announced that he was cutting off all Serbia's assistance to them except for food and medicine. But many Western military experts contend that Milosevic cannot really seal the Serbian border and that Bosnian Serbs have stockpiled at least two years' worth of war materiel and food...