Word: tarmac
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...workers bustle along Nairobi's Haile Selassie Avenue at the downtown corner where a bronze eagle and a fluttering flag mark the five-story U.S. embassy. The next, the earth trembles as a thunderclap unleashes a mighty shock wave. Seconds later, black smoke plumes into the sky as the tarmac ignites, flashing fire to parked cars and passing buses. The blast shatters every window within a quarter-mile radius into lethal slivers, blows the bombproof doors off the embassy, sucks out ceilings and furniture and people, pancakes a seven-story building next door into a mountain of rubble. Thousands...
...fully fueled shuttle threatens to blow; shimmy down an escape pole and parachute away from the ship in the event of a postlaunch emergency below an altitude of 20,000 ft.; and rappel down ropes from the hatch if the spacecraft makes an emergency landing on tarmac. On his Mercury flight, Glenn's only safety measure was an escape rocket designed to ignite and carry the spacecraft out of danger if his Atlas rocket appeared likely to explode...
...visitors expected, the nearest airport to the Main Press Center consists of a modest, two-story box appointed with exactly four check-in counters and one baggage carousel, 75 min. away by (very occasional) bus. As your plane takes off from Matsumoto, the technicians all line up on the tarmac to wave goodbye...
JERUSALEM: Looking closer to death than to the freedom into which he had just been bundled, Sheik Ahmed Yassin was strapped to a stretcher and wheeled across the tarmac before dawn Wednesday, bound for a Jordanian helicopter. The release of the man that Hamas considers its "spiritual leader" was sudden, but not a surprise to those in the know. "The Israelis have debated about releasing Yassin for two years," says TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Lisa Beyer. "They've been terrified that he'll die in jail and provoke even more attacks...
...closed for several hours this morning after a Federal Express cargo jet crashed as it was coming in for a landing. Eyewitnesses said the plane slammed into the runway as it descended and then flipped onto its back, sending flames spewing from the fuselage as it skidded across the tarmac. Miraculously, the plane's two crew members and three passengers survived, scrambling out a side cockpit window as flames quickly enveloped the aircraft. All five people were taken to a nearby hospital, treated and then released, a company spokesman said. The jet, an MD-11 en route from Anchorage Alaska...