Word: aboard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ABOARD PLANE OVER THE BAHAMAS, Oct. 25--Rumin Coak, hollowchested, sunken-eyed, eight-feet zombie from the mystic voodooland of Haiti, has agreed to replace Hu Flung Hucy ocC as CRIMSON prognosticator. He is already flying north with us, alongside this DC-4 clipper...
...paid homage at a hillside cemetery where lie Americans and Koreans killed in the Inchon campaign. He was host at a dinner for Marine regimental commanders, giving weatherbeaten Colonel Lewis ("Chesty") Puller of the 1st Marine Regiment the place of honor. On the Inchon waterfront Almond saw tanks loaded aboard LSTs. He flew in a Piper Cub 200 miles south to inspect the 7th Infantry Division in another staging area; he watched the doughfeet, stripped to the waist in the warm South Korean sun, maneuver through combat exercises in paddy fields and up hillsides...
...periodic prison stretches were interfering with his efficiency as an assassin, transferred his base of operations to Shanghai. There he organized a bombing which killed a Japanese general, mutilated a Japanese admiral and blew a leg off Mamoru Shigemitsu, who later signed Japan's World War II surrender aboard the Missouri. This made Kim a topflight Korean hero, a position which he reinforced by marrying the daughter of An Chung-kuen, another Korean hero who had assassinated Prince Ito, Japan's first constitutional Premier. In 1949 a young Korean army officer, who suspected that Kim had ordered...
...friend, it is too true," confided the mysterious, grey-bearded hitchhiker aboard Huckleberry Finn's raft, "your eyes is lookin' at the very moment on the pore disappeared Daughin, Looy the Seventeen, son of Looy the Sixteen and Marry Antonette . . . You see before you, in blue jeans and misery, the wanderin', exiled trampled-on, and sufferin' rightful King of France...
Washington's Warren G. Magnuson stood up on the floor of the Senate to read a letter. Written by a U.S. merchant seaman to an officer with the Seventh Fleet off the China coast, it said: "I am on a ship I am ashamed to be aboard . . . We are blockade running [to] Communist China. We are hauling thousands of drums of oil and gasoline . . . and steel armor plate, tools and parts to the damned Reds . . . If you guys sight us you ought to blow this [ship] sky-high even though she flies the American flag...