Word: tarmac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reports that I've seen since the aborted rescue mission in April have said that eight servicemen died in the attempt. However, in your photograph of the arrival of the bodies at the Zurich airport [Jan. 26], nine caskets are lying on the tarmac. Did you use the wrong photo? Was there actually a ninth casualty...
...President in a manner that reflects the size, wealth and meaning of the nation. Wherever John Kennedy flew in his short years in the presidency, there was a sense of excitement when he walked out of the door of Air Force One and down to the microphone on the tarmac. Those traveling with him and those who came to see and hear him were rarely disappointed. His bearing was precise, his words carefully chosen, his feeling about America palpable. He gave the office majesty. It will be Ronald Reagan's challenge to do the same...
...stepped off the Aeroflot jetliner onto the tarmac of Moscow's Vnukovo Airport, Afghanistan's President Babrak Karmal was given effusive greetings by a phalanx of Soviet officials led by Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. The Afghan leader was on his first venture outside the Soviet-occupied country since he was installed as Moscow's puppet last December. The sheer number of senior Soviet Politburo members participating in the Moscow welcome demonstrated the Kremlin's obvious desire to shore up Karmal's legitimacy and make a show of his supposed influence with the Kremlin. Mused...
...indication that any one of them has the desire or feels the need to do so. Compared with the convulsions plaguing Iran, the atmosphere on the Arab side of the gulf is relatively calm. Business is good. Oil money has brought riches beyond imagination. Black ribbons of tarmac connect capitals of concrete and glass that have mushroomed where small fishing and pearling villages stood little more than a decade...
...Schmidt stepped down from his white and blue Luftwaffe jet at Moscow's Vnukovo II Airport, President Leonid Brezhnev, Premier Alexei Kosygin and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko were on hand, along with a goose-stepping honor guard. Belying rumors about his ill health, Brezhnev strolled briskly across the Tarmac to greet Schmidt. The ceremony was clearly intended to convey the Kremlin's satisfaction that the Soviets were no longer considered in moral quarantine by the West...