Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of the 52 aboard American Airlines' DC-6 "Arizona," the big speedy plane was less a means of travel than of transition; a kind of big cabinet through which they could pass-with a pleasantly uneventful interval of waiting in the seats inside-from one aspect of the humdrum world to another. At 2:29 in the morning most of them were dozing. The plane, bound from Los Angeles to Chicago and New York, rode 21,000 ft. over the earth at 300 miles an hour, and the dimly lighted cabin was quiet except for the muffled drone...
Disjointed Tale. The tennis balls were human heads. It was quickly evident that there were hundreds of them in patches hidden by fog. There were rafts and makeshift rafts on which humans, crying in thin voices, clustered like sodden bees. The rescue vessels began pulling them aboard, and moving blindly on with whistles braying in eerie chorus...
Most of the people came out of the water a purplish-blue from cold. Their teeth chattered uncontrollably and they clutched the nearest object with unreasoning desperation after being hauled to safety. Occasionally their rescuers pulled aboard a corpse. The living gradually told a disjointed tale of disaster. The gleaming white hospital ship, on a shakedown cruise after being taken out of mothballs, had been rammed by the 15,000-ton freighter
...week's end the Navy announced the cost in human life: 18 known dead, 13 missing. "Thank God," said one officer, "that she didn't have any patients aboard...
...craft, her six propellers glinting in the sun, climbed out westward from her Texas base, on past the sandy fringes of California, high over the glazed emptiness of the Pacific; then her navigator pointed her northward to the tip of the Aleutians. She did not have an atom bomb aboard, but she had its equivalent weight...