Word: tarmac
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...continued digging near the northern coastal town of La Guaira, just across Mount Avila from Caracas. Still, officials said the toll would certainly surpass 5,000 and could even reach 30,000. "There are bodies in the sea, under mud, everywhere," said President Hugo Chavez, as corpses filled the tarmac at nearby Simon Bolivar Airport. "It's horrible." How horrible was evident in the spectral gaze of Alegra Rangel, who had seen her four small children buried alive, inside the family's car, by a roaring mud slide. "I got out for a moment to see what the noise...
...airport tarmac at Kandahar became a battlefield of regional political intrigue as the hostages sweated and shivered through sweltering days and chilly nights: Initially, India looked set to restore relations with the Afghan rulers on the basis of their cooperation with Indian efforts to free the hostages, but then Pakistan - the Taliban?s original patron - put its foot down. "There?s a feeling in New Delhi that Pakistan played a tremendous role in pressuring the Taliban to not allow a commando raid," says Rahman. "Indian commandos were waiting at the airport in Kandahar to storm the plane, but after Pakistan...
Determined to spend Thanksgiving Day with his family in their Philadelphia suburb, Averell passed by flight attendants at Logan Airport's Gate 14. He then vaulted a wall near the terminal to join passengers as they crossed the tarmac...
...explains. "A bunch of my buddies and I, we all do this." Fresh from his last run of the night, he peers out through slightly tinted glasses at the assembly-line progression of cars that advance to the starting line, then spurt, roaring, down the track. The small tarmac crew motions the cars into position, first giving them a chance to "warm up their tires." The drivers spin their tires on the slick, wet concrete slab, emitting a rising scream and belching out dense clouds of rubber-laced steam. "That's to get better traction," Bob explains...
...passion of a would-be Nobel laureate; and just before Clinton touched down Thursday, news came through that Unionist leader and first minister David Trimble had agreed to meet face-to-face with Adams for the very first time. You can forgive Sandy Berger some hubris on the tarmac: "This is the headline we wanted to see when we got here!" he gushed to reporters...