Word: flew
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...middle of his Medical School years, he took a year off and flew off to China as a newspaper correspondent, an experience he emerged from "more than satisfied...
...reported violations of the no-fly zone over northern Iraq since January 1993, Iraqi helicopters had been a problem in the past, when Saddam Hussein used them to suppress the Kurdish rebellion that erupted after the Gulf War ended in 1991. The crews of the F-15Cs twice flew past the copters and identified them as Russian-made Hinds flown by the Iraqi military. The fateful, terse order came back from the AWACS to fire. Moments later, the blasted helicopters, each of them struck by an air-to-air missile, plummeted to the ground...
After France, Belgium, Italy and the U.S. flew in military rescue units, most of the 2,850 terrified foreign diplomats, aid workers and missionaries were evacuated. Some wept with guilt over the fate of Rwandan friends left behind. Theresa Scimeni, an American teacher at the International School in Kigali, recalled the horror before she and her husband and two young daughters were rescued. "We heard each of the houses near us attacked in turn. There would be firing, screams, then silence," she said, safe in Nairobi. "Then a few minutes later the men would move to the next house...
...leader of the teams in the early eighties. When Parish first came to the Celtics, Max noticed similarities between Parish's personality and the character Chief from "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest." He gave the young center the nickname, and it has stuck ever since...
...minute compromises in standards are inevitably measured in human lives. "Russian air safety," says Dan Cook, editor of Air Safety Week, "unfortunately is an oxymoron." Cook means what he says: on a recent inspection trip to Moscow, he and a team of safety inspectors declined to use Aeroflot. They flew Finnair instead...