Word: tarmac
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...released from the labor camp in a threadbare suit of clothes, badly needed a pair of pants and a belt to hold them up. While the crowd waited, Shcharansky changed into a pair of gray trousers brought by his brother-in-law, then stepped out onto the tarmac...
...civilian fact-finding board that a military conspiracy was behind Aquino's murder. Instead, the court supported the military's contention that Rolando Galman, an alleged Communist gunman, had somehow managed to penetrate the 1,199-man security cordon at the airport that day and shot Aquino on the tarmac before being felled by a fatal barrage from nearby guards. The justices dismissed all evidence that buttressed the prosecution's argument that Aquino was instead slain by a soldier on the jetliner's service stairway...
That evidence was extensive. A journalist's audio tape suggested that the first shot came too soon after Aquino left the plane for him to have reached the tarmac and Galman, but the court rejected the tape as inconclusive. The justices also dismissed the testimony of Rebecca Quijano, a passenger on the plane who said that she had seen a soldier in a military police uniform shoot Aquino. Quijano's disclosures, the opinion said, were marred by "emotional instability" and a "personal animus toward the military." The court had earlier rejected the main evidence against Ver, which consisted principally...
...they descended, some of them practically skipping down the steps. No one actually kissed the ground, but Blake Synnestvedt of Bryn Athyn, Pa., knelt down and patted the tarmac. Peter Hill raised both hands over his head, as if he had won a championship fight...
...lift-off point for the hijacked TWA Flight 847, reinforced police detachments were stationed at check-in counters, and airport personnel conducted frequent hand searches of luggage. In West Germany, police used bomb-sniffing dogs to patrol terminals, and some passengers were asked to identify their luggage on the tarmac before it was loaded. In the U.S., the Federal Aviation Administration asked airlines to put into effect special procedures that included holding cargo for 24 hrs. before shipment and discontinuing curbside baggage check-ins on international flights...