Word: flew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ronald Reagan flew to Moscow through seven time zones in 1988, when he was 77 years old, and at moments responded like a sack of potatoes. Jimmy Carter frazzled himself and his entourage by racing through seven countries in Europe, Asia and Africa in nine days in 1978. Lyndon Johnson went on a whimsical and wild four-day flight around the world in 1967. When he found out he had overspent his travel kitty, he sent his Bible-thumping aide Marvin Watson skulking around Washington seeking secret funds from other departments...
Ezra had to adjust to both jet lag (he just flew in from India) and to a different style of squash (he just finished capturing the men's Indian national trophy in "softball" squash...
...Lyndon B. Johnson. He has taken a hands-on approach to CNN in more ways than one. During the gulf war he brought cookies to bleary-eyed staffers working on the weekend. When ABC signed up Mikhail Gorbachev and Yeltsin for a joint interview after the failed coup, Johnson flew to Moscow and personally negotiated with them to do separate interviews on CNN first...
Fast-break passes grazed off fingertips or flew out of bounds...
...Flew Lear jets, took limos--well, now he can walk...