Word: haring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want the swaggering kids back at their jobs at Chicago's O'Hare...
...airport to reduce its flights by a specified percentage that varies with every hour of the day. At New York's La Guardia, for example, the cutback jumps from 27% between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. to 49% in the following hour. At Chicago's O'Hare, the heaviest reduction, 60%, is between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. Each airline is free to cancel any flights it wishes to stay within the FAA limits. Understandably, airlines tend to eliminate their least profitable flights...
Instead of boarding the flight home, Runkle, using the name M. Clark, paid $204 in cash for a one-way fare to Chicago. Still using her assumed name, she registered at the O'Hare Airport Hilton Hotel and paid cash for her room. She browsed the lobby later that night-and was never seen alive again...
...evening a call came from the Illinois Beach State Park, 30 miles north of Chicago: a packet of Janice's ID cards had been found in a trash can. The next morning, Axthelm received the rueful letter, 13 pages handwritten by Runkle on the flight to O'Hare. In it she recounted her last, stormy hours with Campo. "The first two hours he spent threatening to kill both of us," she wrote. "Funny part is, a couple of years ago, I went out with someone he knew and he hardly batted an eye, though we were even closer...
...Mogaill, Roary Rua, Gimp Gillespie, Old Crubog and the Englishman Potter down their Guinnesses under Roarty's suspicious eye and argue why earthworms are scarce and if a doe hare drops her kits all in one den. Roarty's bizarre attempts to unveil his blackmailer also reveal the tragicomedy of the Other Ireland. Locals fight the design of a new church-"a cube surmounted by a cone"-and investigate a blackguard who steals the priest's maid's knickers from the wash line. Without the precisely plotted mystery, this might merely be another scenic tour...