Word: flew
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cabinet, and in other ways he is all too obviously dependent on his American protectors. In fact, Endara suffered from telling, if unintentional, slights. His first television address to the nation was preceded onscreen by a U.S. Defense Department logo. When Americans accepted the surrender of Del Cid, they flew him to the U.S. for trial on drug charges without so much as a by-your-leave to the country's new President...
...been so confident of his power: only a week earlier, he had ordered his security forces to fire on demonstrators in the city of Timisoara, near the border with Yugoslavia, as he flew off for an official visit to Iran. Now, under arrest and facing a military tribunal, he did not seem to understand or accept his defeat. He raged at his judges, who were not shown on the tape, insisted that he would answer only to the "working class" and refused to address the prosecutor's charges that he had destroyed Rumania. Within a bare two hours, the Ceausescus...
...Saudi Arabian prince whose five-month stay in Cambridge was mired in controversy flew to South Florida in late December, leaving behind tens of thousands of dollars in donations to local schools and charities...
...1980s came to an end in what seemed like a magic act, performed on a world-historical stage. Trapdoors flew open, and whole regimes vanished. The shell of an old world cracked, its black iron fragments dropping away, and something new, alive, exploded into the air in a flurry of white wings...
TASK FORCE RED. Assigned targets on both sides of the capital, its rangers had the night's most difficult chores. As Pathfinder planes dropped flares to illuminate the drop areas, the Rangers jumped from planes that flew as low as 500 ft., well within the range of small-arms fire. The Rangers on the west landed near Rio Hato, assaulted the barracks of the 6th and 7th P.D.F. companies and took 250 prisoners. The bulk of P.D.F. soldiers had slipped away. To the east, other commandos dropped in large numbers on Torrijos International Airport...