Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene, Paul Douglas as the mogul, is almost seduced from the business virtues of ruthless efficiency and unbridled avarice that the British evidently find peculiarly American. When a gentle Scottish lass tells him about the beauties of indolence, the mogul seems about to chuck a princely fortune and sign aboard the Scots boat as cabin...
...stop of Petionville to find a situation of astonishing, rapturous stupidity. There stood trucks, orange military buses and trim government Jeepsters, doors invitingly open, all offering free rides to the capital. No imbeciles, the women lowered from their heads baskets of pineapples and beans, loaded the stuff aboard the vehicles and climbed in, some for the first auto ride of their lives...
...shaped a door and drilled all the holes for hardware in ten seconds; machines automatically sprayed a first coat of paint onto small pieces of wood, then other machines sanded them down for a second coat. In exactly one hour, House No. 66,657 was ready to be loaded aboard a waiting trailer, along with bathtub, water heater, cabinets, sinks, etc. By next evening it was erected at an Ohio site 325 miles away. This week it will be ready for occupancy, with landscaping completed...
...Burford started the boat to pull Evans loose. Then "the ugly, pear-shaped body of a giant octopus [appeared]. He was perched atop the [diver's] helmet, all eight tentacles about Evans' body." Burford slammed a pike pole through the creature's head and pulled Evans aboard. The great thing, Burford decided, is to avoid 1) panicking, 2) provoking the creatures. On those terms, he says, divers and octopuses can coexist...
Every Wednesday during the school year a group of Cornell freshmen pile aboard specially chartered buses and ride off to nearby glass factories or coal mines...