Word: overflown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seventh novel, the first since Birds of America (1971), she has overflown her subject...
...Tuesday Commander Mike Griffin landed his 'Blue Blasters' A-4D jet on the flight deck and came up to the bridge to report to Captain Searcy. Griffin had just overflown the beach area and helplessly watched the Brigade being driven back to the sea. Searcy was shocked by the pilot's appearance. Griffin's face was blue. Tears were running down it without restraint. He was so angry and upset that it took a couple of minutes before he could utter a word. 'I hate to see a grown man cry, but I didn...
...communique that included agreement on "measures to prevent incidents at sea and in airspace over it between vessels and aircraft of the U.S. and Soviet navies." By indirection, the Russian exodus from Egypt has honored this pledge in one key sea. TU-16 Badger reconnaissance planes that have long overflown the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean from Egyptian bases have ended such flights and gone home. The games of "chicken" that scrambling U.S. carrier pilots played with them have stopped...
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