Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early evening of Thursday, Dec. 1, 1955, a Montgomery City Lines bus rolled through Court Square and headed for its next stop in front of the Empire Theater. Aboard were 24 Negroes, seated from the rear toward the front, and twelve whites, seated from front to back. At the Empire Theater stop, six whites boarded the bus. The driver, as usual, walked back and asked the foremost Negroes to get up and stand so the whites could sit. Three Negroes obeyed-but Mrs. Rosa Parks, a seamstress who had once been a local secretary for the National Association...
...Elizabeth plans to fly to Lisbon to join her husband for two days before they pay a state visit to Portugal. Soon the headlines were foreseeing a second honeymoon. In preparation the Duke shaved off the reddish, roguish beard he had cultivated during a six-week whisker-growing contest aboard the Britannia...
...Swedish Legation." He rented 32 houses in Budapest in the name of the Swedish legation, packed them with other Jews; he issued thousands of "protective passports" to still others, finally became so bold that on several occasions he bluffed Gestapo or SS guards into releasing Jews already loaded aboard freight cars for deportation or worse...
...York's LaGuardia Field lay dreary and grey under a pelt of snow. In mid-afternoon 95 chattering, winter-clad passengers deposited themselves impatiently aboard Northeast Airlines' 2:45 p.m. flight to Miami, strapped themselves in their seats and settled back to contemplate the prospects of frolicking in the 80° warmth of Miami Beach-just four airline hours away, they thought...
...blazing-jumped from the wreckage and staggered away. First to the rescue were 50 fast-moving trusties from the island's city-run penitentiary, who rushed outside, fought their way to the planeside and helped survivors to safety. The count: of the six crew members and 95 passengers aboard, 20 killed, 50-odd hospitalized. Said Pilot Marsh dazedly: "Her power just drained out. She just wouldn...