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We were forced to de-plane during the layover and stand shivering in the snow for 30 minutes while they de-iced the plane again, and refueled.

Glimpses: Billings, Mont., October 2002 Kym McNicholas 2011

Friendship algebra has placed me at this table in the de-iced rink at the Community Centre.

Saturday Carol Reid 2011

The captain also told passengers he couldn't get the airplane de-iced.

How Snow (and Libyan Soldiers) Led to Airport Logjams Scott McCartney 2011

Norman Pace, Graham Bickley and Caspar Phillipson also feature in a story of hearts de-iced by the new growth of spring, it should make for a warming winter's story for the whole family.

This week's new theatre 2011

Two pilots waiting for their place to be de-iced notice the northern lights in the sky so they start swapping stories about them.

REVIEW: The Best Horror Of The Year, Volume 2 edited by Ellen Datlow 2010

The trouble began midday Saturday, when heavy wet snow temporarily knocked out instrument-landing systems on key runways at both Kennedy International Airport in New York and Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J. Until antennae could be cleared and de-iced, planes were unable to land, a Federal Aviation Administration official said.

How Snow (and Libyan Soldiers) Led to Airport Logjams Scott McCartney 2011

Its wings were getting de-iced by two men with hoses as we approached the aircraft that evening.

Glimpses: Billings, Mont., October 2002 Kym McNicholas 2011

Jackets rapidly take wing from weary bodies, filling the atmosphere with feathers of geese and ducks; bicycles are de-iced ready to zoom through the green pathways of the glorious natural arena centered in Manhattan.

Jack Schimmelman: Central Park: A Performance in Four Seasons (Spring) Jack Schimmelman 2011

What happened was they boarded us, de-iced us, taxied us ...

Blizzard blasts coastal cities from Va. to Mass. Andrew Freedman 2010

We talked as we de-iced our cars and he asked me where I taught.

A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010