Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawn last week one of the world's largest aircraft carriers, the U.S.S. Forrestal, her vast grey bulk towering out of the blue Levantine waters, steamed slowly into Beirut harbor. Hours later a party of Lebanese dignitaries headed by President Camille Chamoun climbed aboard, and the carrier headed back to sea for a demonstration of its capabilities. Among them: tight formations of dive bombers and jet fighters screaming over Beirut's rooftops, lifting away over the snowcapped mountains to the east and fanning out through the Bekaa valley between Lebanon and Syria...
Weary and footsore, the Negro workers of Johannesburg climbed aboard the buses to ride to their jobs for the first time in twelve weeks. Their boycott had been a muted and melancholy protest against a one penny rise in fare (TIME. Feb. 25). Their inadequate diet made it hard for them to walk the 20 miles a day and also work a full shift; their low incomes left many without proper shoes or raincoats for the long trudge, yet 145,000 Negroes had honored the boycott in a demonstration of unity such as South Africa had never seen before...
...town and do some thinking," Dwight Eisenhower sometimes advises his top aides. "You just don't have time to think in Washington." While lolling aboard the missile cruiser Canberra during his six-day holiday from Washington, the President found time to think through to a basic decision: in view of the national outcry for economies in the Federal Government, he must make a direct and vigorous defense of his budget...
...snow. It whistled through the stricken plains (see map), lashing into the land under 80 m.p.h. winds. It piled up mountainous drifts, leveled windmills and fences, ripped up loose crops, killed about 100,000 precious head of cattle. Caught in the blizzard were thousands of homeowners and travelers. Aboard the Union Pacific's Denver-bound City of St. Louis, stopped in deep Kansas drifts, 213 passengers and crewmen huddled for two days, ripped down the train's drapes and curtains to keep warm. In Tascosa, Texas, 16-year-old Chester Simpson stubbornly set out on foot to keep...
...Louis offices, moved them 500 miles southwest to Denison, Tex. In the dead of night, outside movers cleaned out the 15th floor of the Railway Exchange Building, and the third floor of the freight house on the fringe of downtown, quietly hauled away desks, cabinets and records aboard 23 moving vans. On Monday morning unsuspecting Katy employees reported with lunchboxes in hand to find an armed security officer on guard before darkened, empty offices. Cried one woman clerk of 33 years' service: "Oh heavens! I left my glasses in the desk." No one was on hand to tell...