Word: aloft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skies seem to grow less friendly when Norman Wexler is airborne. Last week the Hollywood screenwriter (Joe, Serpico) allegedly bit United Air Lines Stewardess Laura Mansuto on the arm during an argument aloft. The trouble began, say airline officials, when Wexler insulted a cardiac patient who was being outfitted with special oxygen apparatus. After an unscheduled landing in Denver, the writer was tossed off the plane and into the arms of waiting police. In 1972, Wexler had drawn a quick jail stay and a year's probation when, in another mid-flight outburst, he held up a magazine cover...
...consensus of social groups? Johnson was sincere, Fairlie responds; Nixon lacked conviction in his own values. And with this we see that at bottom Fairlie differs little from Newman, with his evil grin on his face as he turns to a page in the O.E.D., or from Schlesinger, aloft on a white horse and extending his lance-like pen. The precise-writing journalist, the university sage, the charismatic politician: in each case power is wielded by the few versus the many, and what each tries to pass off as a democracy is nothing but a literocracy, where the pure word...
Albertini took one glance aloft, pulled out his 50? ticket, and discovered that he had just...
...rhetoric was as angry as the posters borne aloft by the crowd. One banner read, P.L.O. is MURDER INTERNATIONAL; another proclaimed, DEATH TAKES A SEAT AT THE U.N. Eban bitterly denounced the current pro-Arab mood of the U.N., which, he said, "would refuse to support the Ten Commandments because they came out of Israel."* Lane Kirkland, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, added that "there is a stink of Munich in the air, and it reeks of Arab...
Many protestors carried signs proclaiming "PLO Equals Murder," and several held coffins aloft, each bearing the name of a city in which a PLO terrorist action took place...