Word: disembarkation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another instance, the Jewish passengers of the ship St. Louis were refused permission to disembark in Havana harbor. After being turned away by the Cubans, the ship sailed northward close enough to Miami to be able to see the city lights. Telegrams to the White House from a committee working on behalf of the passengers went unacknowledged. There is little need in recounting the obvious fate which awaited these passengers as they were made to return to Europe...
...disembark, the captain and his co-pilot come out and stand with the flight attendants. Instead of the usual "Bye, bye, bub-bye," people laugh and joke with each other, and congratulate the great-grandfather one more time...
...struggled gladly down the aisle with my bags, the Kings waited patiently to disembark...
...plane to New York, it swiftly became obvious that this was not the rowdy Zhirinovsky of past foreign forays. The Liberal Democratic Party leader who has gadded about with ex-Nazi storm troopers and nubile nightclub strippers was the soul of propriety. As he stood waiting to disembark, surrounded by the latest members of his ever-shifting constellation of advisers, bodyguards and hangers-on, his pale blue eyes betrayed the hollow disorientation of an actor between scripts who suddenly finds himself at a loss for words...
...quiet, relatively uninternational town, but I could as easily be in Vancouver or Sydney or London or Hong Kong. All the world's a rainbow coalition, more and more; the whole planet, you might say, is going global. When I fly to Toronto, or Paris, or Singapore, I disembark in a world as hyphenated as the one I left. More and more of the globe looks like America, but an America that is itself looking more and more like the rest of the globe. Los Angeles famously teaches 82 different languages in its schools. In this respect, the city seems...