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Word: lantana (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Eugene, Ore., was waiting at out-of-the-way Zahns Airport near Amityville, L.I., his rented twin-engined Beechcraft D18 outfitted with extra gas tanks and ready to go. Ernst checked out Murphy's mysterious journey: take-off just before midnight, gassing in the early morning at Lantana Airport near West Palm Beach, followed by the crucial lapse of from seven to nine hours before he put down again at Tamiami Airport, Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Whitewash for Trujillo | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...Lantana, Murphy had told the plane attendant that he was carrying a sick man; the attendant saw one passenger in dark clothes, and on a cot or boards, "what looked like a person covered completely with a blanket or canvas." When Murphy landed back at Tamiami, he was apparently alone. Estimated round-trip air time for that type of plane from Florida to Monte Cristi Airport on the north coast of the Dominican Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Whitewash for Trujillo | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...landed at Zahns Airport in Amityville, L.I. That night, Murphy said later, a "cancer patient" was transferred from an ambulance to the plane. It was the same night that Galíndez vanished. Early the next morning N 68100 put down in Florida at the Lantana airport for refueling, then buzzed straight for Monte Cristi on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: The Dictator's Long Arm | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...Bethany Home Road, a well-tailored neighborhood just outside the city limits of Phoenix. Ariz. They owned their home, a rambling ranch house trimmed with apple-green cement blocks; they were surrounded by tasteful but not lavish trappings-Louis XIV-style furniture, a collection of miniature ivory elephants, a lantana-and-plumbago hedge planted and tended by Bill Nelson himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Death of a Neighbor | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

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