Word: flew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tomcat dipped slightly as it flew off the bow, then rose. "Two-one-one airborne," Dryfuse radioed the ship, indicating the tail number of their plane. Tuba and Rosie flew off to work...
...loss set the tone for the rest of spring break. Determined to improve, Harvard flew to Florida for an informal tournament with a horde of unimpressive teams--the only Division I team there, Stanford, just started playing varsity lacrosse...
Imagine a creature with eyes everywhere--on the top of its head, on its chest, on its knees. Surely it must have leaped out of a monster movie, you say, or the caverns of ancient myth. But, no, this strange beast crawled--actually it flew--out of the pages of the august journal Science last week. In a new study, researchers from the University of Basel in Switzerland described how they genetically engineered swarms of bizarre fruit flies-not as an attention-grabbing stunt but as part of a serious effort to understand how nature fashions something as magnificent...
...four men murdered last week during the gruesome post-office robbery in New Jersey, the suffering was relatively brief. The same cannot be said for the close-knit town of Montclair, which immediately went into mourning and flew its flags at half-staff. For the lone survivor of the attack, who is recovering from three bullet wounds in the head, and for the families of the victims, the horror and grief have barely begun. Long after the funerals are over and the physical injuries have healed, those touched by such crimes are likely to face deep psychological traumas--recurring images...
...from Burundi, the central African nation where ethnic violence threatens toduplicate last year's massive slaughter in Rwanda. Dozens -- possibly hundreds -- of people died last week in the latest conflagration in the 18-month civil war between majority Hutus and minority Tutsis. This morning, 15 relatives of U.S. diplomats flew to Brussels from Burundi's capital, Bujumbura, along with more than 250 others. The U.N. Security Council, meanwhile, said it might send troops to Burundi if the situation deteriorates and threatened extremists on both sides with a war crimes tribunal for committing atrocities. "I don't think the international community...