Word: flew
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...this very column that 4,000 pigeons had disappeared from Trafalgar Square, and I still don't know what happened to them. Could a phenomenon--some sort of Bermuda Triangle for small fowl--have swallowed up both the sooty waddlers in Trafalgar Square and the sleek homing pigeons who flew over the Mid-Atlantic states? The answer, I realized, might lie forever in a sort of phantom file of mine that's growing thicker and thicker--the lost follow-up. Meanwhile, at my wife's insistence, I drained the pipes...
...summer of 1981, IBM announced the PC that would break open the computer business and eventually marginalize Apple. Jobs took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal headlined "Welcome, IBM. Seriously." Shortly afterward, he flew a small entourage to Redmond, Wash., to tell Microsoft about the Mac and persuade the programmers to write for it. Bill Gates didn't need much prodding. He agreed to produce the software--and then promptly launched a copycat project that would become Microsoft Windows...
...trying to get a head start -- or at least a heads up -- on the 2000 Presidential election: George W. Bush or the State of Israel? As the Texas governor and potential Presidential candidate flew over the occupied West Bank Tuesday in a personally guided tour led by hard-line Israeli Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon, the answer appeared to be both...
Douglas Waller's book Air Warriors, published in June, follows the two-year training course of would-be Navy pilots. In researching the book, Waller flew with aviators now stationed in the Persian Gulf. "I can imagine how their hearts are racing," says Waller, our State Department correspondent. "Catapulting off a carrier and landing on it are almost as dangerous as combat." Waller's previous book, Commandos, was based on his reporting on Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the resulting Gulf War, which gave him an especially informed perspective as he covered last week's showdown with Saddam Hussein...
Goldberg smirked at the assertion, joking thatsomething "flew up my nose." Goldberg said onlythat "it's great to see that someone can create afrenzy the way Oprah has, but it's unfortunatethat it sort of backfired on the movie...