Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each man. Families of some of the crewmen swarmed in to greet them. Newsmen herded one and all into a briefing room. Did Russia know of the mission? "Certainly, Russia knew about it," replied the general. Were the bombers armed? "This was an unarmed mission," i.e., no bombs aboard, but radar-controlled tail guns carried ammunition...
...Socialist Guy Mollet could scarcely afford to offer the Algerians anything new. Trapped between Algerian terrorists and diehard French imperialists, Mollet had little room for maneuver. Last week the news leaked out that the French government had arrested dashing Brigadier General Jacques Faure, assistant commander of the Algiers area, aboard a French train and sentenced him to 30 days' close confinement in the fortress of La Courneuve outside Paris because of his unconcealed conviction that "in moments of great national crisis [soldiers] must not hesitate to seize power...
...twilit night last week when eight bells sounded midnight aboard the British factory whaling ship Southern Venturer, breasting the sullen swells of the Antarctic Ocean, it meant "They're off!" The 1957 whaling season was officially open. All hands were ready for the first leviathan. Soon from over the leaden horizon came one of the mother ship's brood of smaller ships, towing a monstrous fin whale by its tail. Then began a mechanized dissection such as Melville did not imagine even in his most tortured dreams...
...Died. John Gilbert (Jack) Graham, 24, moody gadgeteer who blew up 44 people, including his mother, aboard a United Air Lines DC-6B northbound from Denver on Nov. 1, 1955, with a dynamite time bomb he planted in his mother's luggage in the hope of collecting $37,500 in flight-insurance money; by the judgment of his peers (cyanide gas poisoning); in the gas chamber at the Colorado Penitentiary, Canon City. Fatalist Graham's observation before he was executed: "As far as feeling remorse for those people, I don't. I can't help...
Next day the air force tried again with another helicopter-a big Sikorsky 58 with two pilots and two guides aboard. A great gust of snow temporarily blinded the man at the controls as he attempted a landing. The big machine lurched and crashed to earth, its rotors crumbled. The guides leaped out to find Vincendon and Henry in the snow more dead than alive, their legs frozen, their faces black with frostbite. "I'm going to die," murmured Vincendon...