Word: passport
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cell of illegality. Fumbling with IDs which couldn't possibly be mine; hastily memorizing "I live on Cedar Lane, am 5'11," and August 6, 1975 makes me twenty three" and explaining to bouncers that the airport in Toronto had lost my luggage and "of course my passport, too...doesn't that suck?" would be a thing of the past. I would be allowed to drink as myself. I could wear what I wanted to bars. I could chat with bartenders. I could stop being a burden on my legal friends and those who were better misidentified than...
...history has pulled them apart, the English and the Irish do at least speak the same language. This helps explain why Heaney did not necessarily resent his inclusion is an anthology of "English" literature compiled by Faber and Faber, Co. Though he did write a poem that asserted his passport was definitely green (the color of the Irish passport), Heaney did not think the book's editors intended to commandeer his writing: "I don't think they were Tally-Ho imperialists out to appropriate wee Seamus," he said...
...wife Anne and their cat Dusty, he pleaded with Israeli guards for sanctuary after the automatic security gate safely closed behind his 1980 green Mustang, stranding the FBI outside the compound. "Listen! I'm Danny Cohen!" he told the guards, using the false name on his Israeli passport. "It's me, Jonathan Pollard!" But Israeli officials wouldn...
...finally acknowledged its culpability in the affair. "You are not alone," Netanyahu told Pollard that month in a hand-written note. "The State of Israel will go on working, tirelessly and dauntlessly, to bring you home." And if Pollard finally heads home, it will be with the official Israeli passport--emblazoned with his own name this time--that he received...
That might be a premature verdict, however. As a Chilean Senator, Pinochet was traveling with a diplomatic passport. Though the government of Chile's President, Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, is hardly a Pinochet ally, it had little choice but to protest formally "what it considers a violation of the diplomatic immunity that Senator Pinochet enjoys," and demanded "an early end of this situation." But the British Foreign Office argued that such immunity would apply only if Pinochet had been on a diplomatic mission. Last weekend Pinochet's allies in Congress were scrambling to determine if his visit...