Word: flew
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...Grand Tour Spanish superstars Real Madrid flew to Asia last summer on a publicity tour, shortly after signing David Beckham (above), the game's highest-earning player and Asia's favorite footballer. The team posed for gaggles of screaming fans, beat some lumbering local teams?and flew home more than $12 million richer, thanks to record sales of team jerseys and to fans like the 44,000 in Tokyo who paid $27 each to watch practice...
...KNEW THAT SOMETHING ABSOLUTELY OVERWHELMING WAS GOING TO TAKE PLACE." --John Robinson A pilot with the 344th Bomb Group, Robinson, 24, flew two successful sorties over Normandy on June...
...this Administration, when the going gets tough, the tough go to Baghdad. It usually works. Bush made a day trip last Thanksgiving and played to boffo reviews, eating turkey with the troops and taking everyone by surprise. Rumsfeld flew secretly to Iraq with just a few aides and, not surprisingly, a press pool. His notices were equally positive as he choppered through a sandstorm to the Abu Ghraib prison and then to a pep rally at the palace that had several hundred troops cheering. Rumsfeld seemed as moved by that welcome as he had seemed stunned by his congressional grilling...
...RECENTLY KOBE BRYANT GOT UP AT 4:00 A.M., FLEW TO COLORADO TO PLEAD NOT GUILTY IN HIS SEXUAL-ASSAULT CASE AND THEN RETURNED TO LOS ANGELES TO SCORE 42 POINTS IN A PLAYOFF GAME. HOW IS HE DOING THIS...
...father, who owned Mack Trucks, the young Fulton took his 18-month trip home after completing school in Vienna. He later embarked on an inspired if eccentric career as an inventor. In 1950, he built a flying car called the Airphibian, a high-wing monoplane, which on one occasion flew from Maine to California. One of his inventions was a precursor to the modern flight simulator; another, the Fulton Skyhook, designed to extract spies from enemy territory, was featured in the 1965 James Bond movie Thunderball...