Word: flew
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...zeros flew overhead on that lazy Sunday morning, some of my neighbors in the hills on Oahu waved at the planes, not realizing that they were the enemy and that this would be the day that would go down in infamy. My family and I were having breakfast that morning, and as the eldest son in a family of Japanese immigrants, I was given a special treat: hotcakes. But the noise was inescapable. The BANG BANG BANG became a resounding BOOM BOOM BOOM. I tried to assuage the family's fears, saying it must be only one of the weekly...
...large plane fly low over the water from the direction of Honolulu into battleship row and drop a torpedo toward the middle of the ships. The plane then turned toward Aiea, my hometown, hugging the surface of the water to avoid antiaircraft fire. As the plane flew a few hundred feet over my head, I saw the pilot with a canvas helmet and large goggles over his eyes looking down at me. As the plane headed north toward the mountains, I saw Japan's insignia, the Rising Sun. "How dare they come over and attack our land and country...
Look at what we all "knew" on that August day in 1974 when Richard Nixon waved goodbye, boarded a helicopter and flew off into exile. The scandal that engulfed Nixon, his first Vice President, Attorney General and top White House aides was, nearly everyone agreed, clearly a windfall of immense proportions for the Democratic Party. And it was: in the 1974 midterm elections that gave the Democrats huge Congressional gains--43 House seats and three Senate seats--and in the unlikely elevation of a peanut farmer and Washington outsider named Jimmy Carter to the Presidency two years later...
...President came into office promising to focus on a domestic agenda, but on Sept. 11, 2001, America's orientation in the world changed abruptly when al-Qaeda terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing more than 3,000 people. America the righteous victim suddenly became the vindicator on Oct. 7, 2001, when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan to drive out the ruling Taliban and the al-Qaeda forces it harbored. But an even more portentous development was unsheathed on Jan. 29, 2002, when President Bush broadened his doctrine with a speech identifying America's enemies...
...this kind of forgiveness and leniency that only serves to encourage French prisoners to fly the coop, like the three who escaped from Draguignan prison when a friend landed a helicopter in the middle of the courtyard and flew them out. While many French prisons install nets to prevent just such an escape, the lack of standardized, rigorous security measures meant that this prison was not required to have such a net. These structural faults are just symptomatic of the poor planning, weak discipline and general apathy that pervades the French correctional system...