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Word: runway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rickard said Massport reviewed the alternate runway system with citizens from around the Cambridge area about seven years...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Cold Weather and Winds Send Planes Over College | 2/17/1979 | See Source »

...make it in safely, and most do, the payoff is high. A pilot can pocket $50,000 for one trip. Ten tons of marijuana, if landed safely, immediately becomes worth $6 million wholesale, making the trip profitable even if the old plane must be abandoned on its makeshift runway in the woods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Colombian Connection | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...rounded the corner to gate 17 S at full speed, yelling at airline officials and insisting that they hold the plane. We saw flight #34 nonstop to Los Angeles for a fleeting moment as it rumbled down the snow-plowed runway and faltered into...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Snowbound in Utah | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

When the shooting was over, Ryan, Harris and Brown lay dead on the runway. Killed, too, were Greg Robinson, 27, a photographer for the Examiner, and Patricia Park, one of the cultists who had hoped to find freedom in the U.S. At least ten others were wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightmare in Jonestown | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Ryan's group managed to get inside and bring out six to ten members who wanted to leave. As they boarded the planes, one of the defectors drew a gun and started firing. That was a signal for other commune members, who suddenly appeared on the runway and shot at the planes. Ryan, 53, was killed, as were four others: NBC Reporter Don Harris, 41, and Cameraman Robert Brown, 36; San Francisco Examiner Photographer Gregory Robinson, 27; and an unidentified woman. At least eight others were wounded. In Georgetown, a woman member of the sect killed herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cult Massacre | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

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