Word: flew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final, the crew defeated Cambridge University by one-and-a-half boat lengths, a margin Coach Harry L. Parker called "convincing." The Crimson flew over the 15/16 mile course in 6 minutes, 24 seconds...
...flew to France after that for a week on the earnings from the reunions and experienced Coup-de-Monde frenzy (minus Coupe de Monde tickets): swarms of people obsessed with nationalistic fervor in the midst of Parisian clamor--yellow face-painted Brazilians, mad Celts (I've never seen so many men in skirts in my life)--and the Eiffel Tower at night, as beautiful as its reputation claims. Breathtaking. Worth the trip...
Even so, the trip began badly, overshadowed by China's denial of visas to reporters from Radio Free Asia and the sweeping up of dissidents in Xian. Then Clinton flew to Beijing and, for the world to see, reviewed a military honor guard in the infamous Tiananmen Square. That's when a grateful Jiang turned things around. An hour or so before he and Clinton were to begin their image-setting joint press conference, a Chinese official walked up to McCurry and asked to talk about the arrangements. It's important to get them right, he said, "because...
...Bishop flew one of the planes that dropped the gas that day. "They briefed it was tear gas--CBU-30, they called it," he says. Eugene McCarley, the mission commander, agrees. "My eyes burned slightly, and maybe a little bit difficult to breathe, but not so it should have rendered anyone ineffective," he says. "We did not use lethal gas, and we did not kill any defectors, men, women or children." John Plaster, who served in the Studies and Observation Group during Tailwind, says, "Nerve agent never was used, and it was not available on call even...
DIED. MARION CARL, 83, intrepid World War II flying ace and postwar test pilot; during a robbery of his home; in Roseburg, Ore. One of the Marine Corps' most highly decorated pilots, Carl shot down 16 Japanese planes over Guadalcanal and flew combat missions in Vietnam while in his 50s. He set an air-speed record in 1947, soon eclipsed when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier two months later...