Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crisis began unportentously at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport. The gleaming white Boeing 747-200B jumbo jet, trimmed in red and blue and bearing Korean Air Lines' sleek symbolic bird on its towering 63-ft.-high tail, lumbered routinely away from Gate 15. Due to leave at 11:50 p.m. E.D.T. on Tuesday, Flight 007 was 35 minutes late taking...
...problem, it seemed, stemmed from physical limitations of the main traffic entry to the Yard--the gate on Mass, Ave, behind Widener Library. Big trucks couldn't fit through it. And Harvard needs lots of big trucks. So they periodically opened up Johnston Gate--the so--called front door to the Yard--to let them in. But careful and thorough studies revealed that two open gates meant more traffic than one. The answer, they said, was to open only one gate, which of course meant closing Widener gate and opening the Johnston Gate full time...
...been transferred from the control of the airport authority to the personal command of an air force brigadier general. Inside the terminal, the passenger lobby was closed. Outside, on the tarmac, a phalanx of soldiers armed with M-16 rifles waited as China Airlines Flight 811 taxied toward Gate 8. By then, Aquino's ebullience had vanished. Dressed in a white safari suit and a bulletproof vest that he had put on just before landing, Aquino waited calmly as three soldiers in khaki uniforms entered the plane. He was aware of the threat of General Fabian Ver, the armed...
...plane taxied to its gate and three uniformed policemen stomped aboard, passengers heading for the exit were ordered back to their seats by the crew. One of the passengers was TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Sandra Burton, who had just finished reporting a story in the Indonesian archipelago and then, by prearrangement, had detoured to Taipei to accompany Aquino on the final leg of his homecoming flight. As Burton recounted it in a file to TIME this Sunday...
...races like the Alcatraz Challenge. This is a particularly gruesome example of the newly popular self-torture called the triathlon: a 1.5-mile swim in cold and swirling water from San Francisco's Alcatraz Island to Aquatic Park, a 20-mile bicycle trek that crosses the Golden Gate Bridge, and finally a 14.5-mile run from Mill Valley to Stinson Beach across Mount Tamalpais...