Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warn the Convair by voice radio-and could not reach it. Flight 258 came in for its landing, flying low over scrub pines. It plowed into the ground 600 feet to the left of the runway. Dead when the wreckage was cleared were 23 of the 34 people aboard, including onetime (1950-53) Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon Dean, 52, a senior vice president of General Dynamics Corp., a work-week summer bachelor, commuting weekends by air to Nantucket and his waiting wife...
...opening of the power station. There were brass bands and the Volga People's Choir, flags and gigantic pictures of Lenin and Nikita Khrushchev. As Party Boss Khrushchev stepped jauntily forward and cut the ribbon stretched across the lock gates, he beamed a toothy smile at cheering excursionists aboard the motorship Dmitry Pozharsky, the first vessel to pass through the locks. He moved on to the engine room of Turbine No. 17 and pulled the handle of the automatic starter. As the turbine began to rotate, sending the first current into the network, Nikita embraced and kissed Electric Welder...
...sorts and all nations converged on the scene. The Irish ferryboat, Naomh Eanna, put ashore 300 holiday excursionists at Galway and headed out into the Atlantic. A Canadian destroyer and an Irish corvette turned their prows to the disaster area. The Jules Verne radioed: "We now have aboard eleven bodies: seven women, two men, a little girl and a little...
...last week the rebels halted a Havana-Santiago train, killed most of the armed guard aboard, rescued a rebel leader being transported for trial and. after waiting vainly to ambush the expected counterattack, retired in leisurely fashion. Two days later they severed the SantiagoGuantanamo highway, blocked traffic for three hours, again withdrew without interference. Nightly, the rebels sniped at the army garrison guarding the Yateras waterworks, which supplies the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo...
...that records and remembers earth distance and direction traveled from a known starting point. One of the best systems was developed by North American Aviation, Inc. for the Navaho missile. The Navaho was scrapped, but last February the Navy ordered a Navaho guidance system installed in Nautilus. It was aboard the sub nine weeks later-and it seems likely to change marine navigation forever...