Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...menace to Hanoi's 300,000 people and the 100,000 refugees who poured in around them. About 20,000 Vietnamese have already left for Saigon, and 120 fly out every day (Air Viet Nam space is filled up for all July). Refugees from fallen Namdinh crowded aboard buses for Haiphong in the second phase of their exodus...
...When the magnate's daughter Irene Stchoukine, who now lives in Paris, started legal proceedings to get back what she considers her rightful inheritance, the Iron Curtain clanged down. One day last week a little black truck sped up to the gallery door, loaded all the disputed Picassos aboard and whisked them off to the Soviet embassy. There, the paintings were back on Soviet soil, where Heiress Stchoukine has no more chance of collecting than a Czarist bond holder...
...dead of a bright white winter's night, the hot young sparks fly off to town to steal some girls of tinder age. Six screams later, their sleigh is racing back to the farm with a baggage of "Sobbin' Women" aboard and a tumult of raging fathers behind. The brothers shout down an avalanche of snow behind them, blocking pursuit until spring, and barrel away home to a long winter's courtship...
...average crewman the money rewards were trifling. All he could look forward to with certainty was maggoty food, cramped and filthy quarters, brutal whippings if he complained, and, since casualties were high, a good chance that he would get sea burial. Officers who died were sometimes kept aboard and brought home in a barrel of rum that was saved and used on the next trip as rations for the crew...
Author Whipple has succeeded in conveying the excitement of his subject without letting romance obscure the unpretty aspects of it. Yankee Whaling has its quota of brown island girls clambering aboard ship, eager to be nice to the white men. It also tells of islands where seemingly mild natives suddenly turned on crews and destroyed them. And there was always the chance that the whalers' crew would run into cannibals and wind up in baking ovens as "long...