Word: tarmac
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...featuring stops in Madagascar, Reunion, Zambia, Malawi, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, South Korea, Indonesia, East Timor and Mauritius. His visits, especially to the Third World's farthest outposts, projected a sense of a true church universal. The Pope would arrive at each destination and kiss the airport tarmac. With his square jaw, actor's timing and facility with languages, he established an electrical connection with hundreds of millions of people. "He transmits hope," explained Philadelphia Archbishop Justin Rigali. John Paul's friend Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete told PBS's Frontline in 1999, "John Paul II knows that...
...last glimpse of him high above the square became the latest in an album of images he left behind: a kiss on the tarmac in each new city; a smile lit by love and certainty; a white robe stained red by a would-be assassin's bullet, and the public forgiveness that followed; a challenge thrown down before prisoners and Presidents, sinners and saints to heed the highest calling of their hearts. He was the first Pope ever to visit a mosque, or launch a website, or commemorate the Holocaust at Auschwitz or find in a broken world so many...
...recognize their loved ones. This is a side of the war that is largely hidden, grinding on almost entirely out of view of television cameras and press conferences. While the Pentagon names each dead soldier, few details are released of those injured, and no photographer is permitted on the tarmac when the casualties from Iraq are unloaded at Ramstein Air Base near Landstuhl. For these soldiers, Landstuhl is a brief hiatus, perhaps a week or two before they are dispatched home or returned to the war. Here, they are neither liberators nor occupiers, neither vilified nor celebrated. They are simply...
...wait in an opulent lounge with overstuffed Italian leather chairs, a linen-tablecloth restaurant, offices and a cigar room with a selection of whiskeys. Five to 12 minutes before departure time, fliers will proceed to the customs desk (no line here!), from which they will be whisked across the tarmac in a Mercedes or Porsche to their plane. Lufthansa is planning another exclusive terminal in Munich, and may consider similar lounges and the personal assistant service for passengers traveling from airports like New York City's John F. Kennedy or Hong Kong International. "It's the experience on the ground...
Most campaigns are known for carnage and chaos. Bob Dole left staff members on the tarmac when he fired them. Clinton had an official campaign team and then the whole secret shadow operation of Dick Morris. Kerry's campaign had more layers than a baklava, and as an aide complained, "he never gave the same speech twice." In Bushland, aides didn't have to be worried that someone would go around or undermine them or that they would be thrown under the bus at the first sign of trouble. "I've been more worried about job security in city-council...