Word: flew
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When Richard Nixon flew into Beijing on the morning of February 21, 1972, Mao Zedong was so thrilled, he wanted the U.S. President to come straight from the airport to meet him. Mao had been seriously ill for weeks: resuscitation equipment was hidden behind potted plants in his residence in case he collapsed during the meeting. The Chairman was fitted with a new Mao suit to conceal edematous bloating. That morning he had his first haircut in five months...
...well-struck ball,” said Shields of the shot that flew over her outstretched fingertips. “[Walden] just beat...
Here I was, invited to Necker Island, Richard Branson's island. Steve Ross flew the Warner jet to bring us Nathan's hot dogs. I mean, pal, I'm a kid from Baldwin [Long Island, N.Y.]. You know what I mean...
...Dawonne's mother, Trinise Henry, who said the family's food and bottled water had begun running out the day before. "Thank God this helicopter showed up, because I really thought no one was ever coming to get us." She pointed to her disabled neighbors as the CH-53 flew them to relief shelters at New Orleans International Airport. "That woman there will die pretty soon if she doesn't get the nitroglycerine for her heart condition; and that elderly man there has Alzheimer's." She calmed down for a moment and then added, "And I didn't tell...
...other parallel is Bush's awkward first hours of handling a crisis. September 11, 2001 is remembered as Bush's finest hour but of course the day was anything but. He sat frozen in a Florida school after being informed of the attack, flew around the country, at first sending Karen Hughes to reassure a worried nation before he made a statement from an Air Force base while a macho Donald Rumsfeld helped carry stretchers out of a burning Pentagon. By the time Bush got back to the Oval Office that night to address the nation, his response had paled...