Word: tarmac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Third-seeded freshman Kathy Vigna, probably the coolest cucumber ever to take a jaunt on the tarmac in the Ivies, sealed her perfect season with a Saturday win over Chris Staley of Dartmouth in straight sets...
Bodybags form a line across the tarmac. Wounded servicemen, dazed and confused, are wheeled into the hold of a military transport. Scenes from a decade past interrupt the sterile excitement of Sunday Night Football. The grisly images are beamed from Lebanon, but the fears they evoke emerge from the seemingly forgotten tragedy of the Vietnam...
...journey had begun in the hope of political reconciliation. It ended in a puddle of blood on the tarmac at Manila International Airport...
...special unit created to guarantee the security of the nation's airports. Two weeks earlier, AVSECOM had been transferred from the control of the airport authority to the personal command of an air force brigadier general. Inside the terminal, the passenger lobby was closed. Outside, on the tarmac, a phalanx of soldiers armed with M-16 rifles waited as China Airlines Flight 811 taxied toward Gate 8. By then, Aquino's ebullience had vanished. Dressed in a white safari suit and a bulletproof vest that he had put on just before landing, Aquino waited calmly as three soldiers...
...toward the exit jetway. When reporters, who had accompanied Aquino on the journey from Taipei, tried to follow, they were halted at the door by two men in white uniforms. By then Aquino was already outside on the metal platform at the top of the stairs leading to the tarmac. He was surrounded by at least five uniformed men. Reporters tried to open the door to follow, but were rebuffed by the guards, one of whom reached back and shoved a television cameraman, forcing the rest of the group back against the jetway's opposite bulkhead and closing...