Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Manhattan reporters caught Doris Duke stepping off the same plane with Playboy Pat di Cicco, they asked the routine question, got a routine answer: "I just happened to meet him aboard the plane. I hadn't seen him for years and I hardly recognized him. I was glad to have somebody to talk with, but every time I talk to someone they try to make a romance...
...also the goal of twelve members of the Polish navy* who mutinied last week against the five Communist officers of their minesweeper, HG-21, locked them in the officers' mess, and sailed the craft into the Swedish resort harbor of Ystad. When a Swedish pilot came aboard, one of the crew said in broken German: "We refugees; can we stay in Sweden...
Back for the final heat, he gave 250,000 spectators a thrill by whipping so narrowly past the observation barge that newsmen aboard could count the stitches on his lifebelt. Then, 300 yards past the barge, Quicksilver began the turn. Suddenly the big hydroplane flipped over, vanished in a geyser of white spray. When the mist settled, only flotsam remained-a few splinters of grey plywood, a seat cushion, one shoe with a sock still inside...
...Once Aboard the Brig. Like Treasure Island, Moonfleet is the story of a half-grown boy, John Trenchard, who gets caught up among desperadoes-smugglers, in this case, on England's Dorsetshire coast. Like Stevenson's Jim Hawkins, young Johnnie first learns the true measure of the lawlessness in his vicinity while lying in concealment-not in a sweet-smelling apple barrel, but in the fust of an old crypt, with a corpse grinning at his elbow...
...chases, to a diamond "as big as a pigeon's egg" that lies hidden in the wall of an ancient well in Caris-brooke Castle. Thence away to a fence for such merchandise in The Hague, who cheats poor Johnnie out of his diamond and lands him aboard a brig bound for Java-until Author Falkner manages a nick-of-time escape...