Word: tarmac
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...morning, and his staff is trying to figure out how to ride the wave, where to go after New Hampshire, what to spend, how to spin. Kerry finally leans back, stretches out and closes his eyes. He wakes when the plane bounces down on the tarmac, the sun rising over Manchester; he's still a little too groggy for a 7 a.m. airport-welcome event in a chilly hangar. He turns to an aide, Stephanie Cutter, and asks how many people are out there waiting for him. "It's a very cold weekday morning," she replies, to a candidate...
...matched or were similar to those on various watch lists, FBI officials tell TIME. As customs analysts frantically researched passenger backgrounds, U.S. fighter jets tailed the plane, intending to shoot it down if a suicide hijacker took control. After being held and questioned for several hours on a distant tarmac at Dulles International Airport, all 247 passen gers were cleared. --By Sally B. Donnelly, Viveca Novak and Elaine Shannon
...until the end of Flight 223 that Duell noticed anything unusual. "We didn't go to the terminal. We just stopped on the tarmac, maybe a quarter of a mile away. And we just sat." And sat. The crew instructed passengers to keep their phones off and their passports in hand. Anyone who needed to go to the bathroom was escorted by a crew member, who waited at the door. Men in dark jackets milled around outside, and the plane was roped off with yellow police tape. Finally, after an hour and a half, the 247 passengers were shepherded...
Being the ministering angel from the Great Satan is an interesting position. The U.S. team was met on the tarmac by an Iranian deputy minister. Its equipment was not examined, nor were its members fingerprinted, as American visitors normally would be. In Bam a Revolutionary Guard exclaimed, "Are they Americans? I love them!" A member of the hard-line Baseej militia snapped, "I don't care if they come to help. I hate them." (Despite such animosity, the Americans ended up treating a Baseej member a few days later.) Several Iranian men appeared to be surveilling the U.S. compound with...
...five former Soviet republics in Central Asia were in a beauty contest, Kyrgyzstan would win. This becomes obvious as you rumble down 30 kilometers of tarmac into Bishkek. The snow-capped Tien Shan mountains rear up like a tsunami. But unlike Nepal or other lauded upland destinations, this country and its capital are still an unknown quantity...