Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women and four men flight attendants began making their 244 passengers comfortable. Still in their standard blue uniforms, the attendants served champagne to the twelve first-class passengers, who had paid $3,588 (round trip) to enjoy the roomy luxury of the top-deck lounge behind the cockpit cabin. Down on the main deck, nearly all of the 24 seats in the business-class section, where tickets cost $2,380, were occupied. Toward the rear, where passengers could fly for as little as $1,200, nearly 80 seats were empty. Flight 007 was bound for Seoul...
...pillows and stretched out to sleep. Some watched the in-flight movie, Man, Woman and Child, a tearjerker about a married man suddenly discovering that he had fathered a son during an earlier affair. When not serving middle-of-the-night snacks and cocktails, the attendants kept the cabin lights low. The trip to Anchorage was uneventful. Flight 007 touched down at 7:30 a.m. E.D.T. Wednesday (2:30 a.m. in Anchorage...
...British nickname for the physical mistreatment of old people, usually the victimizers' parents or grandparents. About 5% of dependent elderly Americans may be abused, according to Murray Straus, a University of New Hampshire sociologist. Is a surge of parent bashing possible? It would not be a real surprise: futuristic cabin fever could break out if, on the verge of the 21 st century, millions of Americans really are working and living in their hermetic "electronic cottages." Last year in state-of-the-art and otherwise pacific Japan, there were 1,099 reported cases of children assaulting their parents...
People who think pachyderms are intrinsically funny will find the rest of Suder sidesplitting. Renoir certainly provokes his share of double takes. The man robbed by Suder tracks him to a cabin in Oregon, where he notices the large pet: "What's that?" Suder's reply: "That's an elephant." And then there is the joke about Suder's manager, an amateur taxidermist, who shows up unexpectedly and tries to kill Renoir with a chain saw: "I can't wait to stuff this sucker." By now, Suder has acquired other eccentricities. His cabin mate...
...holiday." With Sons Hamzah, 3, Hashem, 2, and three-month-old Princess Iman in tow, the couple relaxed in a villa near Cannes. To pass the time, they savored ice cream on the terrace of St.-Tropez's chic Chez Sénéquier, sunned aboard a cabin cruiser named Sinbad and supped with Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, who was also briefly on the Riviera. Well, they only looked like typical tourists...