Word: woman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rickey Ross, 40, a Los Angeles narcotics investigator, was stopped by cops for driving erratically. Ross, an 18-year veteran, was accompanied by a prostitute, though he insisted that he did not know about her profession. The woman said they were smoking cocaine...
...howling wind cascaded through the cabin so fast that one woman's earrings were pulled from her ears. Oxygen masks popped free (some people later complained that several oxygen compartments failed to open). "It was a nightmare," said passenger Dalenya Poliszcuk. A shower of ice cubes from the beverage carts and all sorts of personal possessions filled the air. "There were shoes blown back from the front of the plane," reported passenger Andrew Gannon. "A stewardess went flying, and another one tried to calm everybody down...
...drive to put a U.S. woman on Everest had been something between grail and financing gimmick for at least a decade. Everything -- gender, nationalism, internationalism, ever more dangerous routes, climbing solo and without oxygen, and climbing quickly with little equipment, "Alpine style" -- is a gimmick to Himalayan climbers, whose hobby is absurdly expensive. The most strenuous effort is not on the wind-racked ridges above Camp 4; it is in corporate conference rooms, where idlers with powerful legs try to persuade achievers in powerful suits to pay for their vacations...
...days in a snow cave, was by several days the first of three climbers from her expedition to reach the top last fall. (A male climber, Geoff Tabin, made it to the top just ahead of Luce.) Thus she settled what she somewhat dismissively refers to as "the American-woman-on-Eve rest thing." (Tired of hype and of fund raising, she had put $9,000 of her own money into the expedition pot.) No doubt she also quelled some of the grousing from the Old Guard of male Himalayan climbers that women aren't equipped for extreme-high-altitude...
...experience taken either woman into unexplored places in her character? "No," says Allison, not surprisingly. But then she adds, "Getting to the summit didn't. Winning's easy. Not getting there the year before did. Yeah, failure teaches you things." Luce says, "Maybe I'm calmer. Friends say I seem more mature. Maybe just tired." She and some partners heard the beat of great wings when they were cuffed by the edge of a large avalanche at the Khumbu Icefall. Being in peril, she says, "sharpens your senses for life...