Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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South Korean peasants, fearful of Communist guerrillas lurking in the hills, often go to market by sea. Last week 300 or 400 peasants, bound for hungry Pusan, squeezed aboard the 146-ton steamer Chang Kyong Ho (Prosperous Joy) cramming its hold with 400 sacks of rice. Off the Korean coast, the overladen Prosperous Joy encountered mountainous seas; a crashing wall of water cascaded into the hold, and the ancient vessel sank. Seven passengers, including the captain, swam to safety; the rest (perhaps 350) went to the bottom with the ship...
...Royal Canadian Air Force C-5 transport lifted off Ottawa's snowy Rockcliffe Airport one morning this week, and headed south for Rio de Janeiro. Aboard the plane was C. D. Howe, Canada's go-getting Minister of Trade & Commerce, leading a group of government and business leaders on a five-week good-will tour of Latin America. The mission is the first of its kind Canada has sent to Latin America since 1946. Its announced purpose: "To present a picture of Canada's industrial growth and commercial aspirations so that business and government in the nine...
...districts of Travancore and Cochin, there was already a community of Indian Christians with a tradition of loose communion with the Roman Catholic Church. The man who first converted them, the Indians said, was none other than St. Thomas the Apostle (the "Doubting Thomas"), who reputedly arrived in India aboard a Roman trading vessel...
...Beach in Barbados. By the time Bombard met the Guiana-bound Arakaka, the unending calm had almost shattered his morale. But once aboard the ship, he perked up quickly, chattering away happily in French-accented English, delighted to learn that his calculated position was only 20 miles off. He took a fresh-water bath, broke his marine diet by eating an egg and drinking coffee. After an hour and a half, he went back to his raft with some apples and a fresh battery for his radio. Passengers watched and waved until the raft dwindled to a speck...
...wind blew up soon after Bombard left the Arakaka, and the rest of the voyage was, comparatively speaking, a breeze. For two weeks more he sailed alone. Then he met a small Dutch steamer, spent half an hour aboard. Early one morning last week, 63 days out of the Canaries, he spotted a light flashing ahead. Daylight revealed a brown fishing beach between two weathered, grey cliffs. Bombard had reached Stroud's Bay in the British West Indian island of Barbados. Within a few hours, he sat down to a hearty landsman's meal of grapefruit, bacon & eggs...