Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Douglas MacArthur clapped on his faded, braided cap and, with Mrs. Mac-Arthur, strode aboard the special train waiting on the presidential siding under Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The big electric engine whined out toward Boston, just ten minutes behind a pilot train which gave the rails the kind of last-minute going-over usually reserved for Presidents. From his private car, the general caught glimpses of fluttering flags and handkerchiefs as he clipped through commuter stations along the way. Boston turned out in midafternoon to greet him as though he were just home from the wars...
...Aboard the destroyer escort Douglas A. Munro the captain pledged a $50 reward for the first man to spot Sierks. The Navy, which knows how long a man can last in the open sea, ordered the search ended at 2 p.m. At 1:15 two seamen sighted a bobbing blond head, lost it, then picked it up again...
...officers he interviewed is stitched into a record of human toughness and devotion that defeats even a dead-pan style. Some 80 officers and men were ordered ashore from the Amethyst, got to the Nationalist side and made it to Shanghai. It was those who remained aboard through the grim summer days who were finally to taste the excitement of the Amethyst's escape...
Fate signed Harry Chippendale aboard his first whaler. He was born in the cabin of his father's ship, two days off St. Helena, a great rendezvous of the whaling trade, where Harry's father later served as U.S. consul...
...ready to go to sea in earnest. He knew the "riggin' and runnin' gear" as well as the alphabet, but life on a whaler held odd surprises for him. The oddest: having to douse his clothes in urine, the standard detergent aboard the oily whalers, before washing them in sea water...