Word: debarking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inbound Indonesian air liner mistakenly signaled an emergency. As soon as the plane landed, it was surrounded by fire trucks and a dozen police Jeeps. Guns ready, police waited for skyjackers to act. Passengers and crew, meanwhile, presumed that something horrendous was happening outside, and they refused to debark. In spite of radio communications between plane and tower, nearly an hour passed before the confusion was cleared up and Fiumicino Airport returned to normal...
...made popular by Bing Crosby in Going My Way three decades ago-a genial sort of fellow who solves parish problems so deftly that he has plenty of time to write and croon catchy tunes. Others, whether Catholic themselves or not, view priests as troubled souls who may soon debark from the ministry to marry, or simply as the impresarios of weekly bingo games...
...flown to Dallas to see a psychiatrist; and that Angela Davis and a Dallas County prisoner named George Padilla, a friend, be released. Padilla told his Dallas jailers, "I'm not going anywhere with him. He's nuts." Trapnell agreed to let the 94 passengers debark at Kennedy Airport, ordered the pilot to take off, then forced him to return to Kennedy when the plane was over the eastern tip of Long Island. Once they were back on the ground, Trapnell ordered a fresh crew with, as he put it, "no heroes." Two of the new crew members...