Word: stewardess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...panel of four men and 12 women, including a stewardess, an accountant, and two Boston College students, deliberated for more than four hours yesterday and an hour on Monday without reaching a verdict in the lawsuit brought by Adelaide (Smoki) Bacon against the Federal Kemper Life Assurance...
...candidate, Jesse Jackson, chartered the same Galaxy Electra. On a trip with Jackson from Washington to Dallas last May, the Electra repeatedly shook, dropped and pitched in heavy turbulence. Recalled Juan Williams of the Washington Post: "It was a terrible flight. It's always a touchstone to see the stewardess calmly smiling, but she was screaming and vomiting." The Secret Service asked the Federal Aviation Administration to check out the plane. It did so, but found nothing wrong...
...agreed to free 26 Cuban political prisoners from a list of about 50 that Jackson had brought with him. Castro also told Jackson that he could pick up all 48 of the released men the next day and take them to Washington. As the plane took off, a stewardess noted a fitting coincidence. Said she: "There's a rainbow on the left side of the plane...
...fridge. And if she wasn't, they didn't care, and surely I wouldn't find anything bad to report about someone as wonderful as Erma Bombeck-would I? Their injunctions were further reinforced by my seatmate on the flight to Phoenix and by the stewardess, who saw me studying up on Bombeck and who both told me how lucky I was to be traveling to the shrine of household humor...
...tone for the Midwest stop was set en route from the West Coast. As champagne was being poured in the galley, the French contingent's well-meaning but far-from-fluent American stewardess announced that "champignon " would soon be served. Her passengers whooped with ungallant laughter. In Gaylesburg, Ill., to tour Secretary of Agriculture John Block's 3,000-acre farm, Mitterrand donned rubber boots, a farmer's cap and a sky-blue jacket with MR. PRESIDENT stitched over the heart. He and Block disagreed about American exports undercutting European Community farmers, but Mitterrand lightened the mood...