Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Florida. About 8,500 citizens hopped aboard when the Jacksonville Coach Co. offered free bus rides for Sunday churchgoers. Bus Magnate Wiley Moore was not sure that they all went to church-but "if anyone wants to get on the bus and say he is going to church and then not go, that will be on his conscience...
...silvery B-29 like acolytes, running their flashlights along her vulnerable joints, pumping her broad wings full of 8,000 gallons of high-test gasoline, gently hoisting a dozen 500-lb. demolition bombs into her wide bays. By 11 o'clock pilots, navigators, radarmen, engineers and gunners tumbled aboard for a 2,400-mile training flight. With them went Brigadier General Robert F. Travis, the handsome, battle-tested commander of the air base and "old man" of the Ninth Bombardment Wing, to keep a sharp eye out for mistakes...
Just eight years ago, an officer aboard a U.S. transport standing off the Solomon Islands wrote these words in his diary. It was the evening before the newly created 1st Division of the U.S. Marine Corps landed on Guadalcanal. After many a stinging U.S. defeat at the hands of the Japanese, the bloody Guadalcanal campaign was the first U.S. land offensive of the Pacific...
...helped Chinese forces manage Japan's surrender. One regiment returned to the U.S. and was disbanded; most of the career fighters were sent to Guam, where they lived in wretched ramshackle huts. On Guam, they came to know better the tall, quiet, professional general whom they had "taken aboard" in China as assistant division commander...
...island's internal security. But in addition to his own provincial police, Formosa is guarded by the Nationalist government's secret police and the army intelligence service. Governor Wu is thus in the somewhat cramped position of the captain of a ship when the admiral is aboard. U.S. observers fear that Wu may have been a little too successful for his own good, that he may arouse the jealousy of old-line officials (a good many of whom remain, despite Chiang's recent purge of the hidebound old inner Kuomintang clique...