Word: airport
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...sons developed drug problems, and in 1985 he and his wife temporarily separated and he sought solace in a Christian retreat in a Washington suburb. Rumors that he was having an affair with a 28-year-old secretary were exacerbated when a woman he was with at National Airport screamed that Durenberger had "ruined" her life and knocked him to the floor with her purse. After that incident, Durenberger began giving interviews in Phil Donahue-speak, complaining that he was going through a mid-life crisis and did not love himself enough...
...trouble began the day I picked them up from the airport. Once the tutors emerged from customs, the boys immediately asked where they could make a phone call. But being unversed in the ways of AT&T, it took them 45 minutes to call their parents to tell them the plane hadn't crashed...
...HARD 2. No carols or eggnog for Bruce Willis. If it's Christmas, he must be saving the world from terrorists. In Die Hard he outmuscled the bad guys in an L.A. high-rise. This time he sweats heroically in a hijacked airport. DH2 serves up another dose of slick thrills and explosive...
...special import. Born in Rafat, a now demolished Arab village located in what is Israel today, he says, "I am acutely aware that we Palestinians are misunderstood as a people." He tells of an elegant Palestinian woman, Hanan Bargouthi, who, having undergone a humiliating search at a London airport, observed bitterly, "I am Palestinian by birth, Jordanian by passport, Israeli because of the occupation and a terrorist according to security people...
...recent unrest began on July 2, with a peaceful walkout of government employees that gradually shut down state-run banks, closed the national airport and halted public transportation. When talks to end the work stoppage failed and the government pronounced the strike illegal, union leaders vowed to step up the pressure. That threat brought extremists from both sides into the streets, resulting in the most violent political clashes in the capital since the 1979 insurrection that gave the Sandinistas power...