Word: tarmac
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flew a small plane to Cuba and whisked his entire family to freedom, the pilot and passengers on an internal flight bound for a popular resort tied up their co-pilot, knocked out a security guard with chloroform and, 50 minutes later, were gleefully exchanging high-fives on the tarmac at Miami Airport. All but five of the 53 people aboard requested asylum...
...Clinton, flanked by his daughter Chelsea (who had just boarded the plane) and Hillary, came down the ramp onto the tarmac in Little Rock. A practiced observer would recognize that there was something altered in Clinton's stride, perhaps more than just an effect of fatigue. He put his full weight into every step, as if to underline the gravity of the moment and the heavy burdens he expected soon to bear...
...always said the agreement to protect the airport from ground attack was hanging by a very fine thread. When you start taking mortar fire on the bunkers our people are living in and on the tarmac, that is a serious escalation. Before, we were able to justify putting our finger in the flame despite fighting going on close to the airport. The odd round dropping short can be rationalized, but not when the airport is being directly targeted...
...plane required removing some of the soldiers' duffel bags. Gerald De Porter, the former Army customs inspector there, who is now working as a pharmacist in Fayetteville, North Carolina, says, "I couldn't check the cargo because I wasn't issued a pass to go out on the tarmac...
...players -- from temptation. The N.B.A. has a mandatory rookie orientation program that includes a seminar on AIDS and a dramatized enactment of problems a player may face regarding women and friends. More and more N.B.A. teams are flying charter and unloading their athletes onto buses parked right on the tarmac. Some teams visiting Phoenix prefer hotels near the Coliseum to the Westcourt hotel, 10 miles away. The Utah Jazz books rooms at a hotel in New Jersey even when they are playing at Madison Square Garden. "New York has too much," says the team's president, Frank Layden...