Word: flew
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...complete their study, Wennberg and Anderson flew instruments in a converted U-2 spy plane 20 kilometers (70,000 feet) above the earth's surface. Taking part in the Stratospheric Photo chemistry, Aerosols and Dynamics Expedition [SPADE], the researchers were able to make many measurements simultaneously. This procedure is "unprecedented" according to Ross J. Salawitch, a research associate in Atmospheric Sciences and a co-author of the paper...
...Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, 29, is taking the opera world by storm. His career, which is only four years old, began when he placed second in the Cardiff Singer of the World competition, an event in which both the heats and the finals are televised. Videocassettes flew around Europe, and the phone began to ring: Solti, Abbado, Sinopoli, Muti. Would Mr. Terfel (pronounced tair-vel) care to audition...
...black market for U.S.S.R. nuclear materials. "One more threat of nuclear terrorism and proliferation has been removed from the world," President Clinton said. Defense Secretary William Perry, who announced the deal, said the cache constituted enough to make about two dozen nuclear warheads. More than 30 U.S. engineers who flew into Kazakhstan undercover -- on a cargo plane carrying humanitarian aid -- worked day and night for six weeks to secure the material in 1,400 steel canisters. A member of the U.S. team, Alex Reidy, an arms control analyst for a branch of Martin Marietta that runs the Energy Department...
...next day Zhirinovsky flew to New York City, where he met TIME editors for a 90-minute interview. While his style retained its hastily applied polish, the words had already returned to the same discordant echoes of Zionist conspiracies and Western plots that punctuate his Moscow street rallies. So much for the makeover...
...thought time flew," said organizer Laura Zimmerman of New Words Bookstore. "I was mesmerized...