Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winnowing the news from their informers. In turn, the informers pass the bulletin into Czechoslovakia where each copy, read behind locked doors, passes through scores of hands. As a result, when nine Czech airmen flew a passenger-filled airliner out of Prague in a sensational escape, a girl journalist aboard saw that Josten got the first full story. It was to Josten that Czechoslovakia's world-champion ice-skater, Aja Vrzanova, first reported that she did not intend to go home from her exhibition tour. Josten has become a favorite target of Communist radio blasts, but the more...
...pilot landed aboard the U.S.S. Saratoga, against orders, violating about ten landing rules. When the landing officer called him to time, he merely said, 'God is my co-pilot and I wanted to give Him a chance.' Yes, God is our co-pilot-but He expects us to follow His landing rules...
...113th annual meeting, the British Association for the Advancement of Science heard some frank and challenging criticism of British science and technology. The speaker: the association's president, H.R.H. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh,* until a month ago skipper of H.M.S. Magpie in the Mediterranean. It was aboard his little frigate that Philip, working on navy signal pads, scrawled out the first draft of his speech...
With Show Boat and Caruso piling up record grosses across the nation, Hollywood's moviemakers are scrambling to get aboard the new bandwagon. By the end of this year the major studios alone will have produced 39 musicals (16 more than last year), plus a dozen more pictures with a yeasty leavening of singing and dancing. Among them: An American in Paris (with music from George Gershwin's suite of the same name), Texas Carnival, Belle of New York. One result of the new trend: Hollywood is running so short of dancing talent that the Central Casting Agency...
...effete Ethiopian prince on his way home from Paris. He hated all Englishmen-especially muscular Christian colonizers like young Peter Richards, who gloried in the weight of the white man's burden. Even on the dark side of the color line which galled the three Africans aboard, there was no brotherhood. To Mr. O. K. Chibude, a leftist civil servant on the make, native Missionary Josiah Selwyn was a timid object of contempt. Lij Makonnen despised them both...