Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against the crippled freighter's plates. Lifeboats were broken against their mother ships. But two by two, swimmers floundered away, were picked up, gasping, oil-covered, half-drowned, and hauled to safety. Alone, Carlsen grinned and waved away the last waiting boat. The captain had elected to stay aboard his wounded ship...
Albion denied that Carlsen stayed aboard merely to prevent the ship from becoming a "derelict" whose cargo can be claimed by either the salvager or anyone who cares to board it. If the shipping line had announced its intention to salvage the Flying Enterprise, he asserted, the ship would not have become a "derelict...
President Phil Murray of the C.I.O. Steelworkers climbed aboard an overnight train in Washington one evening last week, heading back to Pittsburgh and still grimly bent on a strike that would shut down U.S. steel production for at least a week. Just after the train pulled out, a White House telephone operator tried to get him at C.I.O. headquarters in the capital. The call finally reached Murray when he got to his Pittsburgh office next morning. Harry Truman and Phil Murray talked for several minutes. After they hung up, Murray consulted his policy committee and dispatched a terse telegram...
...dockside was as cold as any ice the breakers ever faced. Up to virtually the last minute, the Reds had refused to give their estimated time of arrival. Once in, they parleyed half the night over the exchange, then hauled down their flags and stiffly marched aboard an accompanying Russian ship for the trip home. But they did give up the ships...
...This," explained an Air France steward to 33 passengers aboard a plane at London Airport last week, "is what you call a real pea-souper." One of the thickest particulars in London's fogbound history was blanketing the field. It had caught the airliner just after she landed on Runway 280. Before the French pilot could brake to a stop, his aircraft was blanketed. "Stay where you are " ordered the control tower in answer to his plea. "We'll tow you in." Pilot Legillou ordered champagne and brandy passed out to the passengers. "We must be happy while...