Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...powerless craft began to lose altitude, First Officer Marcel Quintal, a Royal Canadian Air Force veteran, remembered an abandoned military strip at Gimli, 60 miles to the southwest. In the hushed cabin, the flight attendants told the 61 passengers to prepare for a crash landing...
...Japanese have been known in the past for being able to turn their civilization on a dime. After 215 years of deliberate feudal isolation during the Tokugawa period, Japan threw itself open in 1854. It was, wrote Arthur Koestler, like breaking the window of a pressurized cabin: the Japanese crashed out into the world devouring everything that had been done or thought in the rest of the planet during their long encapsulation (the late Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution). Rarely has there been an ingestion of foreign influence so smoothly accomplished. The Japanese did something of the same thing...
Mondale, an avid fisherman, went on an early-July trip with his family, seeking trout and pike on the Minnesota-Canada border while staying in a rustic cabin with no electricity, phone or running water. But he cut short the vacation at the end of last week to cast his lines before the women's political convention in San Antonio and the N.A.A.C.P. meeting in New Orleans. His political advisers have been trying to find central issues for his campaign; recently Mondale has been focusing on education, arguing that the nation's schools require a restoration...
...bodies, some of which were badly charred. A team from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the FAA and the FBI arrived to sift through the ruins of the plane for clues. NTSB officials suspect that the fire may have been started by a cigarette in a back-cabin lavatory. In Washington, aviation officials debated once again whether more stringent regulations regarding fire-resistant materials inside jetliners should be imposed. The disaster was likely to put pressure on the FAA to formulate a fire-prevention policy for airline cabins...
Team player that she is, Ride insists that her participation in the flight, which will pack her into a small, camper-size cabin for a week with four men, is "no big deal." Says she: "I didn't come into the space program to be the first woman in space. I came in to get a chance to fly as soon as I could." Certainly there is nothing intrinsically extraordinary about her achievement. Women have been doing just about everything else in recent years, even piloting jet aircraft as big or bigger than the shuttle. So why not space...