Word: purser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tarmac of Tehran's Mehrabad Airport. As aides and reporters milled about, the frail old man, wearing a black turban and ankle-length robes, stepped out of the aircraft's door into the chill February morning. His back hunched, he clutched the arm of an Air France purser as he walked down the portable ramp to touch Iranian soil. After 15 years in exile, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. 78, spiritual leader of a revolution that has been building to a frightening climax, had come home at last. The moment was, conceivably, the start of a new era for a country that...
...petition to the state attorney general demanding refunds. Leonard Lansburgh, one of the ship's owners, tried to pacify the passengers by announcing that drinks were on the house. It hardly helped. Fistfights and swearing matches broke out. One drunken man took a swing at a woman purser, who thereupon screamed into the p.a. system, "Emergency! Emergency!" By then, the crew-including Greeks, Jamaicans and Koreans, who had difficulty communicating both with one another and with the guests-began to protest too. One maitre d' fled his dining room in dismay. Said he: "I'm going...
...Moon is locked in the brig, after he has clearly participated in the previous production number--oh hell, enough. The flourishes compensate for the flaws: the chorus singing tastefully offstage while only Billy and Hope dance during "It's DeLovely;" the words "knock-knock" delivered in character (Steward--bouncy, Purser--officious, etc.) by anyone knocking on invisible stateroom doors; and the nice little zings of punctuation that end a number like "Let's Step...
...cockpit floor gave way, Captain Grubbs fell into the first-class compartment below, then somehow stumbled onto a wing and dropped to the ground. "Just to sink down in the green grass wet with rain was so heavenly," he said later. He might have stayed there?and died?but Purser Dorothy Kelly dragged him to safety...
...thing about it, but since he is now London's leading barrister, perhaps he will stop his nostalgic mooning and get on with the business of defending the excellent name and fortune she married. Can anyone, after all, seriously believe that she promised to marry an assistant purser of the Mauretanial Could any jury possibly uphold the purser's claim of ? 50,000 damages in a breach-of-promise suit...