Word: cabinent
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What happens when your plane suddenly depressurizes? Any dramatic loss of pressure - caused by the sudden surge of outside air into the cabin - feels like you are going up a skyscraper in an elevator powered by a rocket. Your ears pop, and the pain can be intense. You may experience some temporary hearing problems, but nothing too serious in most cases...
...caught up with Obama in the front cabin of his plane as he flew from Amman to Tel Aviv. His tie loosened slightly, he leaned his elbows on his knees as we talked. After four days in Afghanistan and Iraq, here is what the candidate says he saw and learned...
...caught up with Obama as he flew from Amman to Tel Aviv aboard his newly remodeled campaign plane. As we talked in his front cabin, his only nod to comfort was that he loosened his tie slightly and leaned his elbows on his knees as we talked about what he had seen and learned so far. More than anything else, he said, the four days he had spent in Afghanistan and Iraq had been a validation of what he already believed...
...stutters, ''Do not shoot. I am a B-b-british object.'' The most bumptious of the young group marches the frightened visitor home, where he is taken in as a stray. Speaking English as a forgotten language, he explains that his name is Gemmy Fairley, that he was a cabin boy shipwrecked off Queensland and raised by what today would be called Native Australians. ''Blacks,'' the fearful pioneers call them. If readers on the other side of the world experience a weird sense of displacement (the wildlife and astronomy are different, but these old Aussies with their Scottish, Irish...
...London and Paris --the Laurence Oliviers, Noel Coward, Yves Montand, Edith Piaf--until Lena herself became a name to drop. The pools of Hollywood opened up to Lena when she became one of the first black film stars to escape the costume of a maid's uniform, in Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. John Barrymore kissed her hand. Orson Welles tried, unsuccessfully, to go further. Lena and Gail settled down across the street from the Humphrey Bogarts, and Gail went to school with Natalie Wood. If Lena's durable career seems to have been plucked from the book...