Word: tarmac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rule was temporarily brought back to Africa last week by a tall, well-fleshed Englishman named Christopher Soames. A police band played God Save the Queen as the 59-year-old diplomat, a son-in-law of Winston Churchill, stepped briskly from his Royal Air Force VC10 onto the tarmac of Salisbury Airport. Lord Soames thus be came the first British Governor of Rhodesia since the colony's rebellious white minority illegally declared independence 14 years...
...airplane taxis to the tiny terminal building in Spencer, Iowa, (pop. 12,000). George Bush, former CIA director, former envoy to Peking, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, former Ambassador to the U.N. and former Congressman from Houston, unfolds himself from his seat and steps down onto the tarmac. No cheering throngs greet him. Unperturbed, he shakes hands with his few supporters. Then Bush climbs into a large black Cadillac owned by Lee Holt, Spencer's premier car dealer. Holt and Bush cruise off into the failing light, down arrow-straight roads, past cornfields dusted with the season...
...husband's personal emissary, dressed in black suit and white blouse nervously delivered a graceful welcome: "You have lifted up the eyes of the world to focus on the enduring values of the family, the community, human rights and love for one another " The Pope kissed the soggy tarmac, planted two kisses on the cheeks of the Rev. Msgr. Charles Finn, at 102 the oldest U S priest, and said he would like to "enter every home, to greet personally every man and woman, to caress every child." Failing that, he said, "permit me to express my sentiments...
...summit, we boarded a Soviet plane. To the considerable chagrin of our Soviet hosts, its engines refused to start. Kosygin stormed on the plane and said: "Tell us what you want to do with our Minister of Aviation. If you want him shot on the tarmac we will do so." He looked as if he might be serious. I attempted to ease his embarrassment by speaking of the wickedness of objects. When one dropped a coin, I said, it always rolled away, never toward one. Kosygin was not to be consoled by such transparent attempts to shift responsibility. "This...
Paisley is optimistic about S.C.O.R.E., far beyond the skeptical car owner's inclination to agree. "You're not seeing cast iron out there," Paisley says, nodding toward the tarmac. "You're seeing aluminum. You're not seeing eight-cylinder engines. You're seeing four and even two. You look at some of these drive trains and you can put them in a bushel basket - that's how small they are. That's an indication of the cars of the future...