Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning early last month the 21-ton motor junk Pak Tang (Whits Surge) cleared the tiny South China coastal island of Tarn Kung and headed for Changchow. Aboard the Pak Tang were 35 migrant laborers who since early April had been building a breakwater on Tarn Kung. These were the proletariat of the "New China"-men who under the Nationalists had been schoolteachers, civil servants, army and police officers. They were all together by prearrangement. They had complained to their bosses that the three smaller junks in which they usually traveled made them seasick. As some of the 35 lazed...
Even before the guard was dead the rest of the Pak Tang's human cargo came swarming out of her holds. At this onrush, one of the government's two functionaries aboard leaped into the sea; the other, after a brief struggle, was wounded and overpowered. Jubilantly, the mutineers ordered the Pak Tang's nine cowering crewmen to change course for Hong Kong and freedom. But despite all threats, the crew refused, and at last, in desperation, one of the mutineers took the helm. Luckily, before the morning was out the Hong Kong Marine Police spotted...
...Monaco's palace press service, came the crusher: a "formal and categorical denial" that Princess Grace was expecting a second child. Cause of the tizzy: Prince Rainier, continuing the battle royal with reporters that began before his wedding, censored some deceptively tumescent shots of Grace taken last month aboard the U.S.S. Forrestal...
TRAVELERS TO MEXICO will soon be able to fly nonstop from Midwest and western states aboard U.S.-flag planes. American Airlines is expected to win CAB's approval for Chicago-Mexico route, while Western Air Lines on July 15 will start flying from Los Angeles...
...Wanderer. In Wolverhampton, England, rush-hour shoppers laughed merrily at Samuel Morgan, shouting as he chased a crowded trolleybus down the main street-until they realized, after he had swung aboard, that he was the driver...