Word: flew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year, Penn students stormed the football field, tore down one of the goalposts, marched to the Schuykill River and threw it in. And students loyally followed the basketball team to Princeton to see them capture the Ivy title and then tore down the Tigers' own nets. Some students even flew to Seattle to see the team play in the NCAA tournament...
...flew to Milan, met with his team of sleuths and mapped out a bold maneuver. And then on Saturday, April 10, in a wrenching scene on a Lucerne street, the girls were plucked like flowers from their mother's side. Their secret lives ended as abruptly as they had begun--whisked away by car as their mother screamed for them...
...settle the crisis on his terms. His unilateral cease-fire offer last week was followed by hints that the three U.S. Army pows he had would be freed if NATO agreed to an Easter bombing halt. NATO ruled out any suspension, and former Cypriot President Spyros Kyprianou, who flew to Belgrade to win the G.I.s' release, came home empty handed. In a classic example of wartime double-talk, Yugoslav government officials declared that "peace has been restored in Kosovo." Milosevic claimed to be "negotiating" for the Kosovars' safe return to their homes with ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova...
Over spring break I flew over to London. There's something to be said about going to the Virgin Megastore on Oxford Street and seeing a whole ground floor dedicated to dance music and singles, with pop and rock relegated to the floor above. That a chain store, a reflector of mass consumption tastes, chose to arrange its space that way says something about the music scene across the Atlantic. In contrast, I came back to the U.S. and logged on to cdnow.com, only to find dance music classified under the manufactured catch-all heading "Urban/Electronic...
...National Consumers' League. And antique dealers, who quickly adapted to e-auctions, find themselves dealing with amateurs who wouldn't know Caravaggio from formaggio. Peter Woolman, a British antiques dealer in Delray Beach, Fla., is one such frustrated buyer. "It's full of fakes," he complains. He recently flew to Texas to pick up a pair of bronze and ivory statues for which he bid $26,000, only to discover at a glance that they were knockoffs. "The sellers said they didn't know much about what they were selling ...All I can say is, it's better odds...