Word: flew
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Harvard's Development office, which paid for the trip, flew the students to California to demonstrate student involvement in the arts at Harvard. The undergrads performed at a fund raiser sponsored by author Michael J. Crichton '64 and actor John A. Lithgow '67, according to one of the students, David C. Ables...
...mother flew to Poland in January, she looked up at the aisle. A major earthquake had just struck Japan, and the news showed clips of survivors amidst damaged buildings. Her first reaction was one of empathy. She identified with their homelessness, their cold, their devastation and she felt their pain. It was second nature for her as she headed into the pit of evil...
...South for more ammunition, Hanoi had sent thousands of trucks racing down the coastal highway loaded with rockets and shells. Bui Tin, a colonel and journalist for an NVA newspaper, arrived in Danang on April 21, en route from Hanoi to join the final push. Two days later he flew south on a helicopter that, he says, "was filled with new military maps of Saigon that had been rushed into print and flown from Hanoi" to guide the invaders...
...helicopter lift went on for about 21 hours, from roughly 11 a.m. on April 29 to almost 8 a.m. on the 30th. Pilots flew for 10 to 15 hours straight; each trip took about 40 minutes in the air and 10 to 15 minutes on the ground loading up. Marine Captain Glynn Hodges landed at the embassy in midafternoon; his H-53 chopper was too big to perch on the roof, so it came down in the compound. "My troops couldn't believe the scene," says Hodges. "People were climbing fences. It was bedlam. We were afraid of the crowds...
...dividend and start a $1 billion stock-buyback program to increase the company's share price. But here was a move that left nothing to talk about. "I'm going to fight you on this," he told Kerkorian. Canceling a speech at the New York Auto Show, Eaton flew back to Detroit to huddle with the board. No sale, they announced late that night, especially since Kerkorian was planning to finance his purchase partly by using most of the $7.5 billion cash reserve the company had put aside to see it through bad years. Said Eaton: "We don't want...