Word: flew
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...usual poetic flow of attack-counterattack was often disrupted by the elements. Long balls sailed over their intended recipients. Corners flew out of bounds. Passes swerved off target...
...yearlong cooperation among a clutch of curious neighbors, more than 100 fbi agents and an alert deputy sheriff. Officials have accused Jeffrey Leon Battle, 32; Patrice Lumumba Ford, 31; and Muhammad Ibrahim Bilal, 22, of trying to travel to Afghanistan late last year to support al-Qaeda. (They flew into Hong Kong but apparently lacked the cash and contacts required to pass border controls.) Two other accused men--Ahmed Ibrahim Bilal, 24, and Habis Abdulla al Saoub, 36, a Jordanian citizen--remain at large. Battle's former wife, October Martinique Lewis, 25, has been charged with wiring money to support...
Last week, Carr flew to a conference in Virginia to discuss media and journalism issues in developing areas with two hundred people...
...reputation, the aura that preceded him, was so great. We were in awe." Captain Ogden Kniffin, Elsey's Army counterpart, made it a practice on night duty to remove and hang up his uniform to keep it unwrinkled for morning show. Once, about 4:30 a.m., the door flew open and Churchill entered. The mortified Kniffin stood at attention in his underwear, wondering whether his career had come to an abrupt end. Churchill seemed not to notice...
...strength begets greater strength. One by one, George W. Bush is clearing away the obstacles to war, at home and overseas. His public campaign to make Saddam Hussein disarm or disappear is barely a month old, but already Bush has thrown war-averse Democrats on the defensive. He flew to New York City and smacked down the U.N. with his call to wake up or risk irrelevancy. And last week he unveiled his new national-security strategy, a long-range plan for the U.S. overseas, which argues that the strongest nation in the world has the right to pre-emptively...