Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lost: an Open Mind. In secret, aboard an ice-covered Soviet vessel, Ho Chi Minh put into Leningrad. "So here you are!" a Communist contact greeted him, and for two years the Russians paid him flattery. In Leningrad they lent Ho a fur coat, treated him to roast meats and two-finger-long cigarettes. In Moscow they invited Ho, about 30 years old, to sit with the President of the Third International. In return, Ho helped the Russians organize their "University for Toilers of the East," and accepted training-like China's Chou En-lai-as a "professional revolutionist...
...then out again as he was rolled onto a waiting truck with a gasoline generator chugging. The off-on routine was repeated at the station, where a special train waited (with a generator in a baggage car), and at Shanghai, where attendants transferred Fred to a waiting iron lung aboard the President Coolidge...
With 1,600 Marines and Royal Welch Fusiliers aboard, four British warships sped to British Guiana a year ago to enforce London's decision to suspend the South American colony's seven-month-old constitution and thereby stifle its Red-infiltrated government. Since then, restive British Guiana has remained under a state-of-emergency rule by Crown-appointed Governor Sir Alfred Savage...
...Peron's police. Three years ago he was thrown in jail for "disrespect" of the government. Last September, after his release, an I.A.P.A. representative tried to present Torino with the organization's "Hero of Freedom of the Press" medal. But Argentine police hustled the I.A.P.A. member aboard an outgoing plane as soon as he landed in Argentina...
...years ago, 16 tall and rather green oarsmen took their first strokes for Harvard in the "Leviathan" training barge--newly launched that fall of 1928. Since these first awkward strokes, somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,200 neophyte rowers have tried to master the fundamentals of catch and release aboard the flat-bottomed craft...