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Word: disembarked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fully loaded, v. 150,000 Ibs. for the largest piston-engine airliner now in use, making most present runways too short for safety, and the hot breath of jet-engine exhausts will melt many runway and taxi-strip surfaces. Moreover, since six jetliners arriving close together will disembark as many passengers as an ocean liner, the passenger, baggage and ticketing jams of today will pale beside tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRPORTS FOR THE JET AGE-: The U.S. Is Far from Ready | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...Panmunjom to the Communists, who had set up eight large white tents and seven smaller ones to receive them. Among these there had been some disturbances-apparently a last attempt to throw mud on the U.N. A group of Chinese, most of them pitiful cripples, had momentarily refused to disembark from an LST at Pusan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Welcome to Freedom | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

After a milk-run space trip to the planet Xyra (during which the rocket's passengers loll around in armchairs and hold hands to break the monotony), starry-eyed couples disembark to find a city of pink wigwams. This is where a really interesting and imaginative movie could have started--but the characters in this one just kiss and fade...

Author: By W. B., | Title: When Worlds Collide | 12/4/1951 | See Source »

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