Word: ramping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Castro's visit seemed a surprise. Only two welcoming banners could be seen hanging in the 21° cold at Vnukovo airport. But out rolled a Red carpet, and Premier Nikita Khrushchev was on hand to snuggle into the beard when the Maximum Leader came bounding down the ramp...
...Smith last week moved up to chairman-and still chief executive-after 23 years as American Airlines' president. Succeeding him as president of the nation's second largest airline: Vice President-General Manager Marion Sadler, 52, a onetime teacher who joined American in 1941 as a ramp attendant. Tennessee-born Sadler, who holds a master's degree in literature from Duke, had worked up to Buffalo sales manager when he was summoned to New York in 1955 on the strength of his sales-manual writing ability. In 1959, he was jumped over senior executives to general manager...
...rapidly developing little politician named John F. Kennedy Jr. who stole the show. Even before his mother arrived, John delighted curious airport spectators by mischievously snatching a Secret Service man's hat and pulling it ludicrously down over his own ears. Sister Caroline beat him up the ramp of the family plane to greet her mother, but John Jr. did it the showman's way -scrambling up on all fours. He even got to ride all the way home in his mother...
They said the Drive would have to be at least 100 feet wide at the Boylston St. underpass in order to accommodate the necessary turn-off ramps and median divider. Depending on the exact position of the underpass, a ramp will grase--or run directly through--the Weld Boat House...
...audience, however, it means a chance to see Her Grace, swaddled in a frock that may well be a 19th century golf bag and surmounted by a flat green hat that looks like a Sussex divot, fight free of a tenacious seat belt, roll down the ramp and stagger to the airport bar, where the headwaiter respectfully bellows: "A LARGE BRANDY...