Word: disembark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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USAir didn't think the personal hygiene of Randi Freeman and her husband Amir Omrani was up to snuff after they boarded a flight from Seattle to Pittsburgh last month. Airline personnel asked the couple to disembark, and a gate supervisor informed them that both the crew and assorted passengers had complained about their offensive body odor. Freeman and Omrani, an Iranian national, were given toiletries and sent to the washroom as the plane left without them...
...takes seven days to complete its journey, which leaves plenty of time for passengers to disembark along the way and explore more closely the river's treasures. The monks of St. Wandrille may offer a tour of their abbey, an anthology of architecture that includes not only medieval ruins but also a 15th century barn moved onto the abbey grounds a few years ago from a nearby village. In another crook of the river is the Abbaye de Jumieges; William the Conqueror made a point of appearing for its consecration...
...resume their relationship of a half century before, celebrating their union with a riverboat journey. The president of the riverboat company, Florentino has the boat's captain take advantage of the ever-present cholera epidemic to hoist the yellow flag of quarantine so that the lovers never have to disembark and can celebrate their love "forever...
...capacity of 15 students--reportedly packed with almost twice that number of summer campers--flipped over a guardrail on the Massachusetts Turnpike. About one week later, a Harvard Shuttle Bus being driven by PBH ignited only minutes after the student driver had pulled over and told the passengers to disembark...
...took over an Air New Zealand 747 that was making a stopover between Tokyo and Auckland, New Zealand. Armed with dynamite and a knife, he threatened to blow up the aircraft unless all ousted government leaders were released. Ali allowed the 105 passengers and 23 crew members to disembark but held captive the captain, the first officer and the | flight engineer. After six tense hours, the flight engineer ended the siege by hitting the hijacker over the head with a bottle of Teacher's Scotch whisky, fracturing his skull...