Word: departing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Witnesses say the bus, operated by Crystal Transport, stopped at a Getty gas station at about 8:15 last night and did not depart for nearly an hour and a half due to problems with the bus's air brake system. Jeffrey N. Gell Matt A. Howitt ART MUSEUMS...
...they would kill a hostage every half hour. Their first victim, they said, would be Yannick Beugnet, a cook at the French ambassador's residence in Algiers. He was brought to the cockpit and pleaded into the microphone: "If you don't allow the plane to depart, they will kill me." The French wanted the ramp pulled back. "The Algerians said, 'No, no, we are sure they are bluffing,' " a French diplomat recalled. "Five minutes later, the hijackers killed the cook and threw his body on the tarmac...
...Seldom except in books do the dying utter memorable words, see visions, or depart with beatified countenances, and those who have sped many parting souls know that to most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep. As Beth had hoped, 'the tide went out easily,' and in the dark hour before the dawn, on the bosom where she had drawn her first breath, she quietly drew her last, with no farewell but one loving look, one little sigh...
...peacekeepers out of isolated villages. All the U.N. and NATO troops will then drive -- or walk -- out. Only the 1,200 Bangladeshis stationed in Bihac will probably be evacuated by air to warships 50 miles away in the Adriatic. Some of the U.N. troops in eastern Bosnia might depart through Serbia, if Belgrade approves. Most will have to head west, under heavily armed NATO escort, for Adriatic ports...
...Families Depart...