Word: armrests
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...occupants to talk to one another, but the plane was equipped with headphones that would have made conversation easy. The position of the bodies at the crash site suggests that Carolyn and Lauren were sitting in the rear of the six-seat cabin, behind Kennedy. Overhead lights controlled by armrest switches would have allowed them to pass the time reading; a fold-down writing table gave them a place to rest a book...
Swissair was the pioneer in installing such devices aboard its planes, with the first one taking off in January 1997. Each seat has a video screen that pops out of the armrest like a tray table. It can be used to play video games, select music and watch an assortment of movies. In addition, there are three types of gambling available--overseen by the Swiss National Lottery--including slots and keno. Losses are capped at $200, while winnings can go as high...
...every direction, nothing but tiny pieces of debris. The jet lay unrecognizable, "like a huge pane of shattered glass." And scattered among the shards were the people he had come for. He found an eye, a heart, a jawbone. Part of a hand embedded in an armrest. Poirier tries the word hellish to describe the scene, then takes it back...
...even more controversial approach is the risky "fist-to-cheek" position. Here, sleepers place an elbow on the armrest of the chair, and then balance the weight of their head on the strategically positioned knuckles. The peril here lies in the forces of gravity, which slowly pull the head downward, resulting in a cranial free-fall, jolting the student back to consciousness...
...will sit or kneel with eyes closed, his forehead cradled in his left hand, his face contorted intensely, as if in pain. At this time, too, he brings to his God the prayer requests of others. His prie-dieu, at the front center of the chapel, has a padded armrest. It lifts up, and underneath there is a small container for a couple of prayer books and a big stack of intentions, written on yellow sheets. Last month the stack was 200 sheets thick, and the one on the top had nine different names written on it, including that...