We should clearly recognize that the airlift is a temporary expedient. From Wordnik.com. [Daring Young Men] Reference
We have been flying tungsten in by airlift, which is expensive to get and to transport. From Wordnik.com. [Daring Young Men] Reference
That satisfied Attlee, who came home to call the airlift “one of the wonders of the world.”. From Wordnik.com. [Daring Young Men] Reference
Everyone knows the reason for the airlift was the Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain — particularly Berliners!. From Wordnik.com. [Obama: Oh, what’s another lie…] Reference
And the airlift was the beginning of a better relationship, and finally, we developed a friendship with the Americans. From Wordnik.com. [Daring Young Men] Reference
Berlin airlift, maybe?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Chavez Attacks U.S. Efforts In Haiti: ‘They Are Occupying Haiti Undercover’] Reference
There had literally been no better way, since the heavy forest made any kind of airlift impossible. From Wordnik.com. [Hunting Fear]
And then we had played a major role in the airlift which is now the longest humanitarian airlift in history. From Wordnik.com. [President Interview By Billings Gazette] Reference
June 25, 1948: Berlin airlift begins. From Wordnik.com. [Clueless « BuzzMachine] Reference
The first "airlift," on March 10, "brought in small business owners from Pennsylvania, Virginia, Nebraska, and Louisiana.". From Wordnik.com. [Center for Media and Democracy - Publishers of PR Watch] Reference
The airlift was a British idea. From Wordnik.com. [Daring Young Men] Reference
The U.S. military has the capacity to airlift necessary supplies. From Wordnik.com. [Facing A Long, Cold War] Reference
Our only alternative was to schedule the airlift and sealift by hand. From Wordnik.com. [Schwarzkopf] Reference
When Khmer Rouge rebels laid siege to Phnom Penh, So fled in a U.S. airlift. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting For Justice?] Reference
We were hosed: Hertz would have to bring in a chopper to airlift this car out. From Wordnik.com. [The Practical Futurist: The Future Sneaks Up-In Tuscany] Reference
The airlift money came through from the Kennedy Foundation, and the students arrived. From Wordnik.com. [Why Caroline Backed Obama] Reference
After the war took part in the Berlin airlift before joining Sabena as a commercial pilot. From Wordnik.com. [Reginald Levy, 1972 Hijacking Hero, Dies At 88] Reference
"Food and water have always been able to get in through the airlift or through Serb lines.". From Wordnik.com. [When There's No Peace To Keep] Reference
And so, we are now engaged in the longest humanitarian airlift in American history in Bosnia. From Wordnik.com. [After The Survivors] Reference
In 1951, nearly 120,000 Jews were evacuated in an airlift operation from Baghdad to Jerusalem. From Wordnik.com. ['It Is Now or Never'] Reference
The airlift not only survived October but outlasted one of the century's worst European winters. From Wordnik.com. ['Like Music To Our Ears'] Reference
First is the question of who will provide the extra ground personnel to service a stepped-up airlift. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. Plans To Step Up Air Relief] Reference
Among other things, the military had 63 million Meals Ready to Eat within airlift distance of Florida. From Wordnik.com. [What Went Wrong] Reference
(NEWSWEEK has learned that Savimbi, meanwhile, secured a crucial weekly airlift of gasoline from Rwanda.). From Wordnik.com. [The Gems Of War] Reference
It was time to begin Operation Frequent Wind, the code name for a final helicopter airlift out of Saigon. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Days Of Saigon] Reference
In hindsight, it's clear that including the 12 children in the airlift has created a long-running dilemma. From Wordnik.com. [Haitian Orphans In Limbo As Orgs Debate Best Home: Haiti Or America] Reference
Last week the United Nations organized an emergency airlift of food to Mogadishu and towns in the interior. From Wordnik.com. [In The Grip Of 'The Poor Man's War'] Reference
More lastingly, the airlift transformed the United States from Germany's conqueror to the protector of its people. From Wordnik.com. ['Like Music To Our Ears'] Reference
Sarajevo, whose airlift has outlasted Berlin's and whose casualties outnumber Beirut's. is the symbol for the '90s. From Wordnik.com. [Counting The Living] Reference
The airlift, however, suggested something different: an activist United States, on the march in the cause of freedom. From Wordnik.com. ['Like Music To Our Ears'] Reference
America must have a balanced reaction force with sea - and airlift designed for a mix of air, ground and sea missions. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons Of A Lucky War] Reference
United Nations relief coordinator Jan Egeland last week called for aid missions on the scale of the 1948 Berlin airlift. From Wordnik.com. [One Crisis Too Many?] Reference
This source suggests that Israel might airlift commando teams into Iraq along with portable land vehicles to hunt Scuds. From Wordnik.com. [Will Israel Hit Back?] Reference
Perhaps we can airlift copies of "The Secret" to the people in Darfur and they can imagine they aren't being slaughtered. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
Air Force's capacity to airlift the wounded out of the theater and a shortage of hospital beds at bases around the world. From Wordnik.com. [Between The Lines Online: Persian Gulf Roulette] Reference
That led to the airlift for the doctor and EMTs until a morning rescue effort including the Alaska National Guard and U.S. From Wordnik.com. [Former senator Ted Stevens dies in plane crash] Reference
In 1974, Israel disengaged from Egypt and Syria in return for the American resupply airlift during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. From Wordnik.com. [A Rotten Deal] Reference
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