Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Motors last week finally climbed aboard the booming small-foreign-ear bandwagon. G.M. Boss Harlow H. Curtice announced that G.M. in September will begin U.S. sales of its English-built Vauxhall Victor and West German-built Opel Rekord, both four-cylinder sedans previously sold by G.M. only outside...
...helpers. One was a socially topflight admirer, dashing Civil War Major General E. Burd Grubb, a West Pointer with an inherited business. He sent her violets daily from his hothouses but never (he had a strict moral code) asked her aboard his transatlantic yacht. The second was a smooth operator known as "P'ison Jim" Seymour. His diabolical advice to Harriet: "Let the men fool around with mines and railroads. See what you can take out of their wives...
...ground other airmen, following radioed reports of Flugum's plight, ordered another approach. A T-33 jet trainer went aloft, slowed near to stalling speed as the pilot tried to lift Flugum with his wing so the crewmen aboard the C-123 would have an easier time of it. The trick failed, possibly because by this time the paratrooper was hanging limp and apparently unconscious...
...recall. Partisan Leader Pietro Terzi, commander of the men who captured the treasure, laughed nervously as he testified: "We decided to hand the treasure to the Communist Party because the Communists had fought harder than anyone else." An ex-driver for the partisans told of loading five heavy suitcases aboard a Fiat, taking them to Como and delivering them to Gorreri. "They weighed plenty," said the driver. "The car was overloaded and the wheels scraped against the fenders." Snapped Gorreri: "I never saw you before. You lie." Said the driver, unperturbed: "I never...
Slim and stately aboard her official horse Imp, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her official 31st birthday (she was born on April 21, 1926, but British monarchs are feted in June, when the weather is good) by reviewing the Irish Guards at the annual Trooping of the Color. The same day she announced her birthday honors list. New peers: Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank, Sir Horace Evans, the Queen's physician, and Lieut. General Sir Willoughy Norrie. Geoffrey Crowther, editor emeritus of the prestigious weekly The Economist, and Oxford's Isaiah Berlin were knighted, and peppery...