Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Johnson, Clements makes a fetish of secrecy. Example: as usual, he recently kept his staff members uninformed about where he would be on a weekend trip out of Washington (Capitol Hill staffers deem it important to know where their bosses can be reached by telephone). But, just before climbing aboard his train, Clements thumbed an aide to his side, looked warily around to make certain there were no eavesdroppers in the vicinity, cupped his hamlike hand to his mouth and whispered conspiratorially: "Keep this to yourself, but in case of a real emergency, I'll be at the Hotel...
...three is unclear, even to the U.S. Government. They told consular officials in Hong Kong that they had not denationalized themselves by voting in Chinese elections or serving in the armed forces. From authorities in Hong Kong they got one-way travel permits and third-class tickets aboard the President Cleveland, bound for San Francisco. When the 21 chose Communism, Defense Secretary Wilson had ordered them dishonorably discharged without court-martial, an unprecedented and possibly illegal move that has yet to be tested in court. Under truce-agreement guarantees, they can never be prosecuted for their choice. But they...
...England trip, the President got up on a platform at Maine's Dow Air Force Base to say farewell to 5,000 waiting, waving down-Easters. He was working, he said, toward one end: "Peace on this earth, for which we all aspire." On the flight to Washington aboard the Columbine, he discussed with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles plans for the Big Four conference at Geneva on July 18: the long-heralded Parley at the Summit with the British, French and Soviet chiefs of state...
...Minutes. It was the U.S. fleet that had achieved the surprise. Caught with most of its planes aboard, the Akagi exploded and burned. So did two sister carriers, the Kaga and Soryu (Hiryu, the fourth, survived to be wrecked by an evening raid). In two minutes the whole course of the Pacific war changed. That night, its air striking power destroyed, the Japanese invasion armada turned in "emptiness, cheerlessness and chagrin" and limped for home. (The U.S. Navy lost the Yorktown, one of the three carriers that it was able to muster for the great battle...
...based on the theory that when a man discovers a particular brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go to work in the brewery"); and Julie Haydon, 45, wraithlike stage actress; after an 18-year courtship, a nine-year engagement; aboard the cruise liner Santa Rosa in Caribbean waters...