the tarmac

The snow on the streets was no longer so white. Tamped down on the tarmac by the wheels of cars it looked more like ice.

He was escorted from his airplane by two soldiers, who gunned him down on a side stairway leading to the tarmac.

I feel like getting down on my hands and knees, like Pope John Paul II used to do, and kissing the tarmac.

He took me by the hand to a shabby little barracks beside the tarmac, its windows blown out.

Bosworth did not speak to reporters at the airport, slipping out a side door and into an embassy car waiting on the tarmac.

Not driver pulled the car up to the side of the plane. On cue, the door of the plane opened, stairs gently tilting down to the tarmac.

Early the next day, as the plotters walked onto the tarmac, they were, indeed, caught. The K.

But the photos of her wearing them in that iconic descending-from-Air-Force-One-onto-the-tarmac setting proved too much for the media.

I have been sitting on BA 1446 to Edinburgh for over an hour and a half and it has yet to leave the tarmac.

Just at the moment when the wheels were about to touch the tarmac, the engine note rose unexpectedly.

We waited some more, and some of the children had to get out and pee on the tarmac.

However, as I turned I was slammed to the tarmac so violently and swiftly that I had no time to break my fall with my hands.

a place where old hostilities can be forgotten and estranged family members can jet in for a visit without fear of being shot on the tarmac.

As Karzai walked across the tarmac alone, a stunned Tajik warlord asked where all his men were.

Beyond the tarmac, women toiled in fields while their husbands sheltered from the heat in huts and half-built houses.

Istepped out on to the tarmac in Tibet in 1985 and took a deep breath.

After Bush deplaned, he was greeted by an honor guard on the tarmac.

"We all felt the plane was arriving very, very quickly on the tarmac, " 28-year-old Virginie Giroux, one of the French passengers said.

The terminal is open on the side that faces the tarmac and whining, fumy jets idle just yards from where we sit.

If the tarmac in your neck of the woods is of higher quality, then you might find the CC's ride quite acceptable.

Services offered include divided customs and immigration lanes, private car pickup on the tarmac, VIP lounges, and much more.

At the end of the tarmac, a sign for the Senator Obama Secondary School points the way along a red dirt road.

After touching the tarmac with his forehead, he was taken to the Supreme Court and granted bail on corruption charges.

The passengers were shepherded across the tarmac to the airliner.

I winced as I watched one sneaker catch the back of the opposite leg and send him sprawling onto the tarmac.

Authorities say the Bible-carrying hijacker used a juice can to hold 103 passengers and crew on the tarmac for more than an hour.

No racing to an airport and across a terminal, no delays, no sitting on the tarmac, no lost luggage, no taking off your shoes.

Another technical fix is to cover the ground surrounding the tarmac with synthetic turf.

Suddenly the jet hit the ground short of the runway, the fuselage shattering and sliding onto the tarmac.

On the morning of June 15, 1970, K. G. B. agents tackled the would-be hijackers on the tarmac in Leningrad and threw them in jail.

Forty years ago, on a clear, cold afternoon in Beijing, I followed President Nixon onto the tarmac at Beijing's Capital Airport.

The snowstorm is over, but the firestorm continues over flights marooned on the tarmac, delayed and canceled.

Bryant, sensing victory, hit the tarmac, gliding back to the bench for a timeout with 34. 2 seconds left.

A panda-doll-clutching reporter gave on-the-spot updates from the tarmac at the Chengdu airport.

It's the health-care equivalent of being stuck on the tarmac in a crowded plane.

"About an hour ago when the tarmac heated up they went away. When it cools, they'll be back up here, " he added.

And, indeed, it was nearly three hours on the tarmac before liftoff.

Their first targets were aircraft parked on the tarmac and equipment in nearby hangers.

In the summer, the tarmac could get well over 150 degrees F. Standing out there with leather-soled shoes could give you second-degree burns!

A U. S. Predator unmanned drone armed with a missile on the tarmac of Kandahar military airport on June 13, 2010.

As the two men shook hands on the tarmac, Fahim looked confused.

The situation was made worse in New York by the icing problems and some traveler spent more than 12 hours sitting in planes on the tarmac.

Then, the plane sat on the tarmac for an hour.

A chieftain dressed in white then performed a libation ceremony, pouring gin on the tarmac to bring good luck.

Crowded party plane - Mounties on the tarmac - Air Drake?

Their reputations, though, should and will suffer: even a massive snow storm shouldn't require keeping people on the tarmac for 11 hours.

The plane taxied along the tarmac.

come on , let ' s go . south america and madrid are on the tarmac.

About a dozen planes are sitting on the tarmac, with another 20 on the grass.

May 4 images of the tarmac outside the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation factory showed that navy-coloured J-11s were being produced.

McRaven greeted Obama on the tarmac.

One flight from Kennedy to Tel Aviv, Israel boarded at 5: 30 pm yesterday, only to sit on the tarmac for over nine hours.

Boeing 747 is parked on the tarmac beside the terminal.

And some travelers spent more than 12 hours sitting in planes on the tarmac.

The plane had to wait half an hour on the tarmac because of fog .

You ve had a long flight. No, I had a long wait on the tarmac at JFK,

And igniting the tarmac beside you head