Word: flew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After applying for and receiving Harvard's endorsement, Keitner, along with the other candidates in the Maritime region, flew to Halifax. Nova Scotia, this weekend for individual thirty-minute interviews with the selection committee...
While most of their classmates were catching planes home for the holiday, a group of 27 Harvard students flew to Panama City, Panama on November 18 to host a government simulation...
...castigated the chief executive's record and said he had "presided over the destruction of CBS as a cultural and educational leader." (Tisch defended his decision to sell off the record and publishing divisions and said CBS is still "a good broadcasting company.'') A CBS correspondent, Scott Pelley, even flew in from Hawaii so he could pay tribute to the great days of CBS--days, he implied, that were gone. It would be appropriate, he concluded, "to take this moment and say, 'Goodbye, old friend...
...King had been lucky with a New York City jury. In the 1985 tax-evasion case, the promoter got off scot-free while one of his loyal female employees took the fall. According to Jack Newfield's biography Only in America: The Life and Crimes of Don King, King flew most of those jurors to London for the Tim Witherspoon--Frank Bruno heavyweight title bout eight months after the trial and put them up in a luxury hotel, burying the expenses as part of the fight's promotion...
...finally got the violin of my dreams, the Plowden which is another [Guarnieri violin made by] Del Jesu in 1735," Ptashne says. "I was in Sweden giving a lecture and an English dealer and friend of mine called and said that if I flew in to New York City that night I could see the twin of the D'Egville," he says. "I flew there and now they're back together...