Word: airport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jetliner touched down at New York's Kennedy International Airport, and the whole place went up for grabs. Some 2,000 hooky-playing, caterwauling teenagers stomped, whistled, screamed, sang or just plain fainted while the plane slowly disgorged 105 passengers, 11 crew members and four British Beetles. Oops, Beatles. On their first U.S. tour, the mop-topped, top pop wailers, John Lennon, 23, George Harrison, 21, Paul McCartney, 21, and Ringo Starr, 23, grinned amiably at the whole mad display. What was their secret? "A good press agent," chirped Ringo. (They have...
...moving its tanks and guns into the desert, to remote desert bivouacs where they hope U.S. missiles cannot find them. Command centers near the highway to Jordan, the only land link out of this isolated country, have been abandoned as generals disperse to makeshift headquarters. Antiaircraft guns ring the airport where U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan landed for the talks that Iraqis dare to hope will forestall the bombs. "We want him to bring peace," says a shopkeeper watching the babies' coffins go by. "We pray to Allah to help him bring peace...
...name adorns the gargantuan Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington. Congressional Republicans and all other D.C. travelers can now feel a warm glow as they pass through Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Earlier this week, PBS broadcast a four-and-a-half-hour documentary on Reagan. And, to complement your reading of Dinesh D'Souza's recently-published book Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader, Reagan's official biography will be released next fall. Even The New Yorker, that bastion of liberal snootiness, recently published an article titled "A Celebration of Reagan...
...controllers. All of these students voice loud support for "Bond," their favorite game. (Note: The word "Bond" must be yelled.) In accordance with his obsession, Jamil K. Shamasdin hopes to redecorate his common room with "Bond chairs...to serve as thrones for our pasttime." "Bond chairs" are something like airport chairs with an attached table--but the unique furniture piece is impossible to describe perfectly to anyone who does not share Shamasdin's passion...
Then some psycho launches rockets at the Tokyo airport. The music crescendos...