Word: flew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...visit to New York lasted five days, the maximum Castro could get on his U.S. visa. He joked that he will not return until Giuliani fixes the potholes in the road from the airport. But the briefness of the trip probably worked to Castro's benefit. He flew off with the press still curious and businessmen eager to head to Havana. As another show-biz adage has it: always leave them wanting more...
DIED. MAXENE ANDREWS, 79, singer; in Hyannis, Massachusetts. Reduce World War II to three voices, and the choices are obvious: the rant of Hitler, the rumble of Churchill . and the single, seamless sound blended from the warble of the Andrews Sisters: Maxene, Patti and LaVerne. The trio first flew up the charts with 1937's bilingual Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen, a Yiddish ditty infused with the giddy, jivey spirit that followed G.I.s around the globe. Wartime hits included Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (1941) and Rum and Coca-Cola (1944). The 1967 death of LaVerne ended the Andrews Sisters' career...
...variety of animal life, however, that has captivated visitors ever since De Berlanga, whose ship was blown off course en route from Panama to Peru, stumbled on the archipelago. Because the chain was never attached to any other land mass, all the resident species are descended from ones that flew, drifted, swam or were carried there. Ninety-five percent of the reptiles, 50% of the birds, 42% of the land plants, 70% to 80% of the insects and 17% of the fish live nowhere else in the world. Among them: giant tortoises, Galapagos penguins, waved albatrosses, flightless cormorants, Galapagos...
...nine days, a specially outfitted L-1011 jet flew 45 top executives from a cross section of American companies, colleges and foundations to places in the news, where they met and questioned the men and women who are making it. Seven TIME journalists went along, joined by a few TIME executives and resident correspondents in each city, but it was our guests from other walks of life--acting as honorary journalists--who asked most of the questions and afterward debated most fiercely the honesty and meaning of the answers...
...setup for yesterday's UNH game, when Harvard flew out of the hole with a 3-1 victory and put its offense back in gear...