Word: travels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tell Emmett Koen about the chaos theory of air travel. He and thousands of other flyers lived it last week when American Airlines flight attendants staged the largest U.S. airline strike in nearly five years, a walkout that threatened to paralyze the nation's largest airline and ruin many a traveler's Thanksgiving holiday...
Thousands of furious travelers were forced to scramble for flights on other airlines in hopes of finding an empty seat during the year's busiest week of travel. At Chicago's O'Hare Airport, a woman clutching a wedding dress in a plastic bag sobbed as she learned her flight to Antigua was disrupted. Elsewhere, many of American's 200,000 daily passengers camped out on concourses, their luggage serving as makeshift pillows. In Dallas one harried American ticket agent was at the end of her rope: "I just called my husband and told him that when I get home...
...haven't gone home for Thanksgiving since I came to Harvard because, until recently, home was in Pasadena, Calif. And cross-country travel is simply not cost effective when it means only three-and-a-half days of home cooking...
Peter W. Duncan '97 said it was too expensivefor him to travel back to Seattle, Wash...
...Dartmouth and St. Lawrence are two of the stronger teams we play and [travel] was a whole new experience for most of the freshman so it showed in their endurance," Dooley said. "When we go back on the road again against Princeton and Yale, the idea of travel won't be so new to them and we'll be able to produce a stronger game...