Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, with the good-humored help of Commodore Harry Manning, Researcher Fremd became the first woman to set foot aboard the United States. The trip was part of her research assignment on the cover story on Commodore Manning and his ship (TIME, June...
...long walk ended at an old canal lock a quarter of a mile farther along. A National Park Service sightseeing barge, drawn by two mules, awaited the hikers. They climbed aboard to ride the last five miles to Georgetown. Their triumphal entry into the city, however, was just beginning. As the barge sloshed down the canal, hundreds of men, women & children hustled along the banks exchanging greetings with the expedition. Other well-wishers called greetings from overhead bridges. The escorting fleet of canoes grew. Automobiles jammed up along a parallel roadway...
...lack of excitement aboard the Windrush was definitely the decisive factor in the rescue, Albion said. He praised the conduct of Capt. W. Wilson, "a competent officer who took control of the situation during the first critical moments" and prevented any possible panic...
...Admiralty refuses to use the nasty word "sabotage" and calls the wrecking "malicious damage." In several of the incidents, no naval personnel were aboard ship when the damage was done, and the admirals first suspected an organized campaign to "lower the navy's efficiency" (which implies Communist sabotage). It discovered, however, that some of the acts had been committed by disgruntled young sailors fed up with crowded quarters and with life aboard modem warships...
...jeep came to a halt and waited in darkness and silence. "The forest was full of eyes," said Henderson afterwards. "The pulse rate was not exactly normal," added Policeman Bernard Ruck. Presently there came a rustling, footsteps, then dark shapes. Two Mau Mau warriors loomed alongside. Henderson waved them aboard and the four drove out of the forest...