Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wept instead, covered her face with both hands. Scores jumped the fence onto the field, broke past police lines to tug at Evdokia and strike at her guards. Witnesses said they heard her cry in Russian: "I don't want to go! Save me!" before she was hustled aboard...
...small Liberian steamer Semiramis, chartered by the Red Cross, slipped into her berth in Barcelona's harbor, hundreds of hysterical relatives and friends leaped or shinnied aboard to embrace the returning soldiers...
Broadcasters took their microphones aboard to let all Spain eavesdrop on the reunion scenes. In the bustle and excitement, Photographer Carlos Perez de Rozas slumped to the ground, dead of a heart attack...
Mexico City's 600,000 straphangers were elated last week when 41 new streamlined U.S. streetcars appeared on the trolley lines. With their usual facility for nicknames, they labeled the new cars clorofilos, for their light green color, and crowded aboard for test runs. The clorofilos were the first new cars placed in operation in more than a generation. Most of the city's 403 remaining streetcars are almost 50 years old. Many adult passengers have been riding the same cars all their lives, just as their fathers had before them. The ancient cars, a faded yellow...
Died. Dr. John Frederic Erdmann, 90, retired Manhattan surgeon, who performed more than 20,000 operations, including chest surgery on Tenor Enrico Caruso, a secret operation (to avoid public panic during the great 1893 free-silver debate) on President Grover Cleveland for cancer of the jawbone aboard a yacht in Long Island Sound; of a coronary occlusion; in Manhattan...