Word: tarmac
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expect an internationally known freedom fighter like Victor Laszlo to leave a hotbed of international intrigue without the press's following his every move? No way. How much more credible would that movie be today if a veteran journalist--me, for instance--showed up for the finale on the tarmac. "Ted, I think--yes, that is Victor Laszlo approaching the airplane... He seems to be with two other people... There's a woman, a very attractive dark-haired woman, and... I believe the man wearing the trench coat is the proprietor of a popular gathering place here in Casablanca...
...city of Roswell, N.M. (pop. 49,000), is the birthplace of Demi Moore. It is also home to the nation's largest mozzarella plant. On warm spring nights, visitors deplaning onto the tarmac at the local airport may be struck, in a not necessarily unpleasant way, by the rich, manurelike odor rolling in from the surrounding ranchlands. But none of these things is what Roswell is most famous...
...military aid either comes directly from Russia or is being supplied by former Soviet Central Asian republics with Moscow's blessing. The equipment is loaded onto Afghan heavy-transport planes in Kulyab for the trip south. Last week half a dozen such Russian-built transports were sitting on the tarmac in Kulyab, some of them painted in camouflage. Much of the aid is going to a man who used to be the Soviet army's most feared adversary in Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Massoud, one of the leaders of the forces combatting the Taliban. Russian officials acknowledge that Kulyab has become...
...used a hidden camera to videotape him as he photographed documents under his desk. On Nov. 16, the day before his 46th birthday, Nicholson was at Dulles International Airport in Washington, planning to board a flight for New York and from there a connection to Zurich. Waiting on the tarmac, disguised as ground crew, were two FBI agents, members of the bureau's supersecretive counterintelligence squad. As Nicholson headed for the open door of his plane, they blocked his path and told him he was under arrest. At that moment, three more squad members slid out from among the pack...
...that reflects four bruising years in Washington and the bone-deep weariness that campaigning brings. She speaks of seeking a new balance in her life. "That's what I try to do every single day," she said, settling back into the leather seat of a limousine idling on the tarmac at the Sydney airport. "I hold my hands out and try to put one foot in front of the other. I'm big on balance...