Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long-distance patrol planes are equipped with reconnaissance radar, Navy brass in the Pentagon were certain that she had not disobeyed standing orders to stay well clear of Russian and Russian satellite territory. And she couldn't have opened fire on a seagull because there were no guns aboard except the pilot's personal .45 automatic. The next logical question was: Had the Russians spotted the Privateer by radar, shot her down or fatally crippled her over...
This week he closed up the winter White House, climbed aboard the Magic Carpet-the Air Force's plush Constellation-and returned to Washington, after his longest vacation (30 days) since he took office as President five years ago this week...
Death in the Night. One overcast night in February, aboard a regularly scheduled DC-3 which was making its approach to Atlanta, he looked out of a window and saw automobile lights so shockingly close that he felt he could touch them. A few seconds later, as he bawled at passengers to get to the rear of the cabin, the big ship smashed into a hill with a doomlike roar. When silence fell, Rickenbacker was pinned down over the body of a dead steward by the weight of wreckage...
...second birthday of the United Nations' World Health Organization. But in Terai, in the far-off foothills of the Himalayas, members of a WHO team journeyed by elephant from village to village, crawled into thatched huts spraying DDT to fight an outbreak of malaria. WHO workers were aboard river boats plying the Rhine from the North Sea to Switzerland, giving boatmen examinations and treatments for venereal diseases which had been, carried from country to country. In Shanghai, a WHO nurse kept up a tuberculosis nursing program that had been started long before the Red armies overran China...
Furthermore Weisman asserted that because the company put them aboard this ship with only one day's notice, he and his wife were forced to cancel numerous European theatre and hotel reservations...