Word: stewardess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minute pause, Lod gave Kawas landing instructions. Moments afterward the plane touched down and Israeli troops seized the hijacker, later identified as Mohammed Mahmoud Al-Toumi, 37, a merchant with a Libyan passport, no ostensible links to any terrorist unit, and an obvious overdose of alcohol. Said a stewardess: "He had four Scotches before the hijacking, and he took frequent swigs before we landed...
...hardly problematic. What is more damaging is the fact that the characters' underworld lives are made up to be more attractive than they are. Coyle is given a pleasant, energetic wife and a pack of loving bouncy kids. A bank robber has only to stick his hand down his stewardess girlfriend's pants to have her "come off like electricity." But he'd just as soon be pulling a bank job as sitting home listening to her talk...
...there were alternatives to staying home and being a housewife. There is nothing bizarre about a traveling salesman, but somehow the male idea of the female is violated by a woman commuting. Sometimes I feel that the men I sit next to on the plane consider me an extra stewardess-that I should converse and be entertaining. When I told one man that I was busy working, he began screaming about liberated women...
...Stewardess Scrutiny...
...Harvard students plan to inspect about four planes a day, six days a week, during the four weeks of the survey. The cockpit and stewardess areas will receive extra scrutiny with the radiation detection devices, because of the higher exposure rates to which aircraft personnel are subject...