Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open the more important question as to who the sluggers were. Havana police, who had been standing firmly on the official story that the prelate had been hurt in a fall, hastily began a new investigation. Cardinal Arteaga, again wrapped in dignified silence, departed for New York and sailed aboard the Italian liner Andrea Doria for three months' rest and recuperation in Rome...
...memoir, a classic of its kind, begins when the Dutch steamer Rooseboom, carrying more than 500 evacuees from Malaya, was torpedoed in the Indian Ocean, halfway to Ceylon. Gibson was one of 135 survivors who swam to the only lifeboat left afloat, one designed to hold 28 (80 got aboard). Like many of the others, Gibson was wounded: his collarbone was fractured and a shell fragment had lodged in his leg. On the first day, the captain took stock of their supplies: a case of bully beef (48 twelve-ounce cans), two seven-pound cans of fried spiced rice...
With the pinkish hydraulic fluid spurting in our faces-and with no salad oil aboard to refill the draining hydraulic system-we stopped the leaks with chewing gum, reinforcing our handiwork with Band-Aids from the medical kits...
...York harbor last week, a U.S. Customs officer briskly climbed aboard the S.S. Mohican, a World War II Liberty ship, as she lay at anchor. The officer informed the captain that the ship was being seized by the U.S. Government. His reason: the U.S. ship, in violation of a 1916 law, was being operated by an alien owner, Stavros Niarchos, a Greek who had bought her as war surplus through U.S. nationals as dummies...
...most surprising new character to emerge upon the Argentine scene in many a day is a ten-year-old Spanish boy called El Galleguito (the little Galician). El Galleguito arrived in Buenos Aires last May as a stowaway aboard the liner Yapeyu, expecting to find an earthly paradise; Argentine seamen in the Spanish port of Vigo, where the boy led a catch-as-catch-can existence begging and running errands, had filled his ear with wondrous tales of their homeland. Argentine immigration authorities were not so encouraging, planned to send El Galleguito back to Spain. But a few weeks...