Word: stewardess
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Resist Your "Inner Stewardess" "During those panicky episodes when I feel the urgent need to stay connected to money at any cost, she pops out with her jaunty little hat and white gloves," she says...
...engine sputtered once, twice; the pilot then tried to rev up again, resulting in engine sputters three, four. When a third attempt left us as grounded as before, a stewardess announced that she was very sorry, that the plane would have to be taken in for repairs. The mutterings that went around the cabin pretty much reflected my own sentiments, which, to be perfectly dramatic, were something along these lines: We could have all died...
...children herself, first became pregnant at 15. It was an "accident," she explains. So too was her second baby. "I'm always tired," she laments, "and I can't eat." Before Joey's birth, before she dropped out of school, Stephanie dreamed of being a stewardess. Now her aspirations are more down-to-earth. "I want to pay my bills, buy groceries and have a house and furniture. I want to feel good about myself so my kids can be proud of me." It has been a long, long while, she confides, "since I had a good time...
...decision by a federal judge last week closed the book on a long-gone era in which flirting with airline passengers came perilously close to being considered a stewardess's duty. During the 1960s, United Airlines, like its competitors, preferred young, single women as flight attendants, reasoning that they made the skies, well, friendlier. In 1970 a class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of 1,720 women who had been forced to quit United when they married. Last week U.S. District Judge James Moran approved a $37 million settlement in the marathon case...
...about this leaflet?” the stewardess asks, thrusting forward a flimsy piece of paper. “Famous Jewish sports legends...