Word: steward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane. Told that Air Force planes are not so equipped, the mayor said: "Well, boy, I've got my own bar." Soon. Healy and Fitzpatrick, after pouring drinks for some other passengers, finished off one fifth, then another ("Here's the second dead soldier," remarked a steward, as he tossed an empty into the trash), then topped them off with an extra pint. Never really boisterous, the two men spent their time bending the ears of other passengers on the junket. "Hell," burbled one mayor, "we're not down here to look at this meet...
...garden-party dresses which always decorate Henley during the Regatta were for once in harmony with the climate. The redcoatted band, the funfair, and the bars were all operating at full tilt as the first shells glided past the green riverbanks to the finish in front of the Steward's Enclosure...
Utrecht sailed on to Boston, thence toward New York. At 6:55 on the last night out, Nita Spector knocked on the door of Cabin 7, called Lynn for dinner. The secretary replied that she was not feeling well. A steward knocked again at 7:05; he heard only quiet sobbing and left. At 9 o'clock Mrs. Spector returned to Lynn's cabin with the Utrecht purser. The cabin was empty, and Lynn Kauffman was not again seen alive...
...last May Indian customs at Calcutta's Dum Dum airport found a 7-oz. gold bar in Chinese Stewardess Jenny Wang's handbag. (Her explanation: Hong Kong residents "customarily" carry gold as "mad money" in case the Chinese Communists should suddenly overrun the city.) A fellow steward, David Furlonger, seeing her being searched, was overheard by an Indian customs official as he remarked, "You can't trust these Asiatics." Infuriated, the customs official ordered Furlonger searched too-and found 4½ Ibs. of gold, worth $4.300, strapped under his clothes...
...waste of skilled manpower," says Dr. Leslie Hunter, Bishop of Sheffield. Strong's retort: "Many people regard the Church as something apart. In my own way I am trying to dispel that attitude." One proof of his success: Strong was elected by his fellow workers to be shop steward of the Amalgamated Engineering Union...