Word: taxiing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...here by stinking, smelly, noisy vehicles in the middle of a city. I love cars and trucks. I love airplanes too. But you learn that you leave an airplane at the airport. You leave your car at the end of that nice trip on the highway. I don't taxi my airplane into downtown Manchester if I fly across the United States...
...another car, the rear end so loaded it was almost dragging the ground, Yussif Ashour of Chacra, his brother and four women in the back competed for space with family artifacts, foam mattresses bound with twine and stuffed in the trunk and a very tired-looking taxi driver. But it wasn't clear what his family was returning to. "They say 80% of our village has been destroyed," Ashour said...
...There appeared to be more than refugees among the traffic. Three young men of fighting age in a yellow taxi heading north among the refugees claimed to have just come from the front in Nabatiyeh. Each wore short beards in the style of Hizballah fighters and all grinned when asked about the fighting. When asked about casualties, they declined to say, but only said, "God will compensate" for any losses...
...said that he was converting to Islam because it all made sense and had just clicked with him?. His mother was not best pleased about it but after he converted he seemed a lot calmer and more at peace with himself." Friends of Savant, who works as a taxi driver, also provided the by-now familiar tales of the terror suspect as a young man who loved his football and hanging out with his mates before a religious conversion. According to Reuters he converted to Islam in 1997 or 1998, when he began wearing traditional dress, grew a beard...
...took advantage of Monday's lull to flee the war zone and make their way north. They bring with them their country ways and their rage. "These children, they won't just grow up to fight Israel, they'll fight America too," said a young mother just arrived by taxi from Bint Jbeil district, scene of some of the war's heaviest ground fighting. One of her cousins, a Hizballah fighter, had been killed by the Israelis in nearby Maroun...