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  • n  a person who hides aboard a ship or plane in the hope of getting free passage

  • What looked like safe stowaway spots where corporations securely tucked away assets for their employees' retirements now look like roller-coaster funds.
  • But the unconscious is not a passive stowaway on the voyage of life; it has the power to make its hosts feel very sad or behave in strange, self-destructive ways.
  • But there's a stowaway on board: Russell (Jordan Nagai), a plump, determined kid who has been pestering Carl to let him "assist the elderly," the one good deed he needs to become a .
News & Articles

  • Dead wheel-well stowaway went undiscovered for 7 flights
    A man who died while flying in the wheel well of a Russian charter plane is shining a spotlight on the issue of airplane stowaways and, by extension, routine maintenance and pre-flight inspections. As originally reported in The Aviation Herald, it appears the deceased flew in the wheel well on at least seven flights before being discovered.The incident unfolded on June 6, after the i-Fly flight ...
    June 13, 2013 - NBC NEWS
  • Survey: Bedbugs a growing problem in autos
    We all know that picking up hitchhikers is not generally a good idea, and there is one little stowaway that can really make life miserable for motorists. Her name is Cimex lectularius.
    June 13, 2013 - Detroit News
  • Dead stowaway went undiscovered for 7 flights
    A man who died while flying in the wheel well of a Russian charter plane is shining a spotlight on the issue of airplane stowaways and, by extension, routine maintenance and pre-flight inspections. As originally reported in The Aviation Herald, it appears the deceased flew in the wheel well on at least seven flights before being discovered.
    June 12, 2013 - NBC NEWS
Quotes

  • Frank Bainimarama in Stuff.co.nz
    This morning Fiji's military commander Frank Bainimarama told Suva radio Legend FM that Leung could "go to court if he wanted or he could stowaway......but he is not going anywhere".
  • Belinda Stronach in CTV.ca
    He would have you believe that he was a stowaway on the good ship Chretien when in fact he was the first mate,Stronach said of Martin, while condemning cuts to the military under the Liberal government.
  • Charles Busch in La Jolla Light
    A screenwriter of Hollywood's Golden Age talks about being a stowaway on a Chinese junk and escaping a cannibal village,Busch said. "There are three stories in the play that are undercut like a movie. The underlying theme is about mothers...

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