Word: airstrip
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...corrosion of the salt-laden ocean air had all but ruined what was left of the British facilities on the island. The harbor was silted with sand. The water supply system was nothing more than a deep ditch cut into the coral to catch rain water. The airstrip was pocked with holes that would snap off a landing gear. The buildings were ready to fall down...
...south gate of Cape Canaveral, Glenn smilingly produced his identity card for the guard. Minutes later, he stood on the airstrip and shook the hand of President Kennedy, who had just flown in from Palm Beach. Like most of his fellow citizens, the President had risen early on the morning of the Glenn flight, had followed the tense hours from countdown to recovery of the capsule on his TV set. After the speeches, the President and Glenn inspected the capsule. Kennedy ?on his first trip to Canaveral?seemed fascinated, and Glenn, in matter-of-fact "hangar talk," described...
First, the two trucks waiting to transfer the equipment broke down and had to be pushed off the airstrip; then Simon Losala, Gizenga's provincial president, realizing that a dusty sport shirt was inappropriate for the occasion, rushed off to find a jacket and tie. When he returned, his tipsy words of welcome were: "I have been diddling around all day to ensure that these generators serve the population. In about three days or three weeks, I forget which, we shall have light again. It has meant a lot of work but, by God, I have...
...slim-hipped, soft-voiced frontiersmen and sky-eyed, sexy gals; of boom town bragging and spaces that are Great and Open; of easy wheeling and cool dealing that turn a fortune at the breakfast table and double it at the barbecue; of a DC-3 on every private airstrip and His and Her Cadillacs in every garage...
...secret was the operation that each of the three aircraft involved took off carrying sealed orders. But once they understood their mission, the pilots understood the security. They were on their way to Maralal airstrip, 200 miles from Nairobi, to bring home Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta. the man the British sent to jail in 1953 for organizing the ferocious Mau Mau terror. After eight years. Kenya's Governor Sir Patrick Renison had convinced both himself and the Colonial Office in London that British forces could handle any threat to public order posed by the old African nationalist...