Word: almost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eastern had canceled almost all flights yesterday, but had supervisors haul baggage and de-ice planes to keep its Northeast shuttle flying some of its scheduled trips despite a snowstorm. Pan American World Airways doubled its Northeast shuttle service to take advantage of Eastern's troubles...
...iffy future is completed. "I'm like a cruise director," he says. "I organize the trip and the entertainment and the luggage. Then everybody gets on the ship, and it sails off without me. After a show opens, a chasm opens before me. My relationships with 70 people almost come to a halt. I like them a lot, and I miss them tremendously...
...abandoned the longtime editor who backed him for more than a decade in order to get a contract of roughly $1 million has now got a $1 million contract on his head. And in the same breath as he became a household name, Rushdie has become a missing person. Almost worst of all, for a writer, his work of the imagination -- and an exceptionally complex work of an uncommonly fertile imagination -- is now being treated as if it were a heretic's pamphlet; The Satanic Verses has been turned from a book into a talking point. With the drama bringing...
...most astonishing ideological pirouette was performed by President Khamenei, who had seemingly tried to defuse the crisis a few days earlier when he spoke of Rushdie's possible repentance. But Khamenei sounded almost as fierce as the Ayatullah last week, saying of the death edict, "The long black arrow has been slung and is now traveling toward its target. There is nothing more that can be done." Western governments, he added, had made the mistake of confusing "freedom of expression with the freedom to insult 1 billion Muslims...
Whatever the literary or theological merits of The Satanic Verses, its commercial success is assured; yet for almost a week, such leading chains as Waldenbooks, B. Dalton and Barnes & Noble kept their remaining copies off the shelves. In New York City the Authors Guild, the PEN American Center and the Writers Guild of America (East) fired off letters of protest to the bookstore chains, criticizing them for caving in to censorship by terrorism...