Word: flew
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John Glenn has a curious tendency to fly machines that try to kill him. He flew them in the Marines; he flew them with the Air Force; he flew them as a civilian. And each time he did, the fact that they were trying to kill him never seemed to trouble him much. One telling incident happened in 1953, during the Korean War. A World War II veteran and a longtime combat aviator, Glenn had been assigned to fly F9F Panther jets in an attack squadron running raids out of Pohang. During one especially hellish run, Glenn encountered an unexpectedly...
Even a lowly yeoman like Glenn will have his hands full getting ready to fly aboard his new ship. The first time Glenn flew, he was in a mere demitasse of a spacecraft--one with a single window, 56 toggle switches and barely 36 cu. ft. of habitable space. The joke around NASA in that earlier era was that you didn't so much climb inside a Mercury capsule...
...28.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey...
...there is to be a culture clash between Brown and Galotti--both used to the bottomless largesse and stylish cool of Conde Nast--and the more profane, tightfisted world of Miramax, it was not yet apparent. Indeed, as words and phrases like "synergy," "21st century" and "content is king" flew about, all three principals seemed as energized by one another as by the prospects for their partnership. Imagine the giddy, self-important friendships of high school; then imagine a high school in which the upperclassmen are Barry Diller and Michael Eisner, and you will begin to get the picture...
...came back and saw my little brother graduate from high school. I flew back to Cambridge and started up my job, running the Institute of Politics' Summer in Boston program. A whirlwind of faces, thoughts, impressions: Michael Dukakis--personable, dedicated, jocular, still committed ten years later and a definite true believer. He said, "Politics is still worth getting into. You may not win, but you never know what you're going to get out of it. I lost in '88, but 50 marriages still came out of that campaign...