Word: tarmac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Travel Agent. In Memphis, George Gattas hurried to the airport in an attempt to get two friends aboard a Southern Airways DC-3, arrived slightly late, raced the plane across the tarmac as it taxied before takeoff, blocked its path with his station wagon, accomplished his mission, gladly paid a $26 fine...
Shortly after 10 o'clock one morning last week, a frail man in a light grey suit stepped out of a Soviet-built IL-14 transport onto the tarmac of Belgrade's Zemun Airport. Dutifully, the visitor surrendered himself to a welcoming bearhug from his stocky, sun-bronzed host, accepted bouquets from four dewy-eyed young Pioneers, and acknowledged the salute of a snappy, blue-uniformed honor guard. Then Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka and Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito headed off across the Yugoslav capital in a motorcade whose first three cars were a Rolls...
...rolled to a stop on the tarmac, Nixon was still going strong despite a feverish head cold and the wearing effects of the bumpy, eleven-hour flight. He exchanged formal speeches with government leaders, remained at the airport for 20 minutes to acknowledge the thunderous cheers ("Freedom! Freedom!") of some thousands of Ghanians massed behind a fence at the edge of the flag-ringed field to greet him. Quipped the Vice President, leaning over the white fence to shake hands: "In America, we call this the boardinghouse reach." By late this month, when Nixon plans to wind up his current...
...four corners of the earth. Such, anyway, was the impression created by frontpage stories recounting the reunion of Queen Elizabeth and her husband in Portugal after his return from a four-month cruise through the Commonwealth. No less than 150 eager pressmen elbowed one another aside on the tarmac at Lisbon's Montijo Military Air Base as the Queen's gleaming Viscount transport headed...
...compartment. Tommy gun-toting gendarmes pried open the plane's back door, poured into the cabin while the passengers were still tied down in their safety belts. Ben Bella said: "All right, we're coming out." One by one the passengers, hands high, got down to the tarmac and were taken away. Shouted Ben Bella: "This is how you can trust the French...