Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guard hired a light plane to spot the invasion fleet and a pair of lumbering launches to chase it. Tito divided his forces, left Dame Margot weeping aboard Nola as he and Elaine churned off over the horizon. When the Guard's launches appeared, Margot led them away from Elaine, then scooted back to Panama City. Tito went ashore close to his family farm, 75 miles west of the capital...
Last week the Navy announced the appointment of the first chaplain to be assigned to active duty aboard submarines on patrol: the Rev. John Laboon Jr., lieutenant. His watery parish will consist mostly of nuclear-powered subs carrying ballistic missiles. "I hope to have a large parish before long," says Father Laboon. "At sea I'll care for the men; on the base I'll look out for their families...
...ABOARD the Atlantic Coast Line's Palmetto Limited at 6:15 one evening last week sat Mr. and Mrs. Christian Herter, bound from Washington for a quick weekend's rest in Green Pond, S.C. Also aboard the train, also bound for Green Pond was TIME Washington Correspondent Harold B. Meyers. Soon after the train pulled out of Washington's Union Station, Meyers handed a porter a note for the Herters, a few moments later was welcomed into their room for an informal interview ("I had known you were aboard," said Herter later, "and I must confess...
...Haste. This week, as they have for the past six years, the Israeli Samaritans will journey to join their brethren for Passover on Mount Gerizim. Bearing gifts of clothes, toys and fruit, the 130 men, women and children will cross the border at Jerusalem's Mandelbaum Gate, climb aboard buses for the 70-minute ride to the sacred mountain on which they must remain during the whole seven days of Passover, in accordance with Jordanian security regulations...
Just then another swan boat docked. "He pedals it like a bicycle," Jessie noticed. "No wonder it goes so slowly." She grabbed Clipper's hand and ran aboard. "Wish we could go swimming," she said to a little boy beside...