Word: stewardess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Flying came immediately to mind. After a little deliberation, though, it didn't sound that great. I wasn't enthusiastic about taking one of those commuter airlines that doesn't ask you to pay until you've left the ground. After the wheels are slowed, the stewardess comes by looking for your fare and for a little contribution to the Incompetent Pilots Relief Fund...
SEPARATED. Joe Montana, 27, quarterback who led the San Francisco 49ers to their 1982 Super Bowl victory; and Cass Montana, 31, United Airlines stewardess; after two years of marriage, the second for each, no children; in Skyline, Calif...
Northwest Airlines Flight 714, bound from Tampa to Miami, was barely ten minutes off the ground when a slightly built man in a baseball cap, brandishing a hunting knife, wrestled a stewardess into the seat next to him and demanded that the plane go to Cuba. The captain of the Boeing 727 dutifully changed course. Across the aisle, Miami Cargo Shipper Dewey Parker silently signaled to Blake Bell, the passenger in the window seat next to the hostage stewardess. "On the count of three, he grabbed the hijacker's right arm and I grabbed his left," recounted Parker...
...went public on the streets of Bloomington, Ind. Until he was jailed, he wandered the city raving against devils and homosexuals. Similar episodes followed wherever he traveled: in Boston, in London, in Salzburg, in Buenos Aires. At some point he would fall in love: with a nurse, an airline stewardess, a Latvian dancer. It hardly mattered. She would become the angel of his "rebirth...
...unaccountable ways during fires. Such holocausts can still instill strange hilarity in some, or make even the most trained and disciplined person break down. One of our neighbors--another old-timer--served cocktails on the veranda as the fire crept over the hill. Another nearby resident, an experienced stewardess, drove while-eyed and panic-stricken down the hill in the family's only car, leaving her husband, her daughter and her horses stranded in the path of the oncoming flames...