Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aboard the Columbine III with her. Mamie had brought a cook, her personal secretary, her maid, half a dozen Secret Service agents, her sister "Mike" (wife of retired Army Lieut. Colonel George Gordon Moore), and an old friend. Mrs. Ellis D. Slater (wife of the retired president of Frankfort Distillers Corp.). The management's delicate logistics problem was how to post secret Secret Service men so that they 1) could guard Mamie while she was in or near the swimming pool, but 2) could not see, or be seen, by poolside women. It took considerable brow-furrowing to find...
...wide miss of the target 1,500 miles away. Advances in celestial navigation and radio astronomy systems helped, but the big answer came from two scientists who developed a gyroscopically oriented navigation system called SINS (for Ship's Inertial Navigation System). After a year's testing aboard a converted cargo ship, SINS racked up an accuracy score of less than half-a-mile deviation, and recently has narrowed that down to about an eighth of a mile...
...August 1905, aboard the U.S.S. Mayflower on Long Island Sound off the Roosevelt summer place, Sagamore Hill, T.R. met the plenipotentiaries of Russia and Japan. These talks led to 1) the Treaty of Portsmouth, N.H.; 2) restoration of balance of power; 3) the Nobel Peace Prize for T.R. T.R.'s thought about the Treaty of Portsmouth: "Sometime soon I shall have to spank some little international brigand, and then all the well-meaning idiots will turn and shriek that this is inconsistent with what I did at the peace conference, whereas...
...last week Sir Winston Churchill, as he often does on his Riviera holidays, lunched with Aristotle Onassis aboard Onassis' yacht Christina in Monte Carlo harbor. Sir Winston ate and drank as heartily as ever. When he reported feeling ill that afternoon, the physician who usually treats him at Monte Carlo, Dr. David M. Roberts, thought it might be indigestion. Next morning it was clear that whatever ailed Churchill was more than indigestion. The old warrior abandoned his plans to meet Lady Churchill, arriving from London at the Nice airport, and took to his bed. An eddy of concern welled...
Lamphere claimed to have been a professional wrestler billed as "the Indiana Cyclone," also a ship's carpenter and bosun's mate. He told Munchausen stories about having had his appendix removed aboard a tugboat in Ireland, of exploratory kidney surgery in Japan. A crosshatch of surgical scars showed how often he had been under the knife. Disarmingly...