Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what anyone said; nobody could have reached the climbers in any case. Two days later, however, when the sky cleared, a Piper Cub, filled with blankets, food and medicine, took off from the French air-force base at Le Fayet, 20 kilometers down the valley. With an Alpine guide aboard to plot the route, the little plane spotted the climbers on a treacherous northern slope close to the edge of a snow cliff that threatened to break away at any minute. The pilot could not get close enough to drop his supplies. The expedition made another try by helicopter...
...shots on a towed sleeve in five passes, a Navy gunnery record, and he advanced with the Navy from the old Liberty-engined torpedo plane ("It could make 70 m.p.h. going downhill") to the dive bombers and fighters of World War II. On his last scheduled carrier landing aboard the old Saratoga in 1941, his plane hook skipped over the arresting gear, and he crashed into the landing barrier at high speed. Badly shaken up, he climbed into another plane, took off, and came back in for a perfect landing...
...Dutch diver named Flip Gwoud suited up aboard a Danish launch at the southern entrance to the Suez Canal. Then he slid over the side to mark the sunken wreck of the Egyptian frigate Abikir. Minutes later the Danish tug Protector chugged past to start work on a wrecked dredger blockading passage eight miles farther north. Thus at last the U.N. salvage fleet began its huge job of clearing the 40 wrecks that block the Suez Canal...
...Coldrey believes, than if the patients had gone under the knife while acutely ill. In other cases, operations were avoided for patients either pregnant or suffering such ailments as bronchitis, heart disease or influenza. A prime indication for avoiding an operation, Surgeon Coldrey thinks, is when acute appendicitis develops aboard ship, "away from skilled surgery and adequate surgical surroundings." In fact, Surgeon Coldrey is now beginning to wonder whether it is even necessary to operate automatically in the first 24 hours of an attack...
...they inched back from the canal highway, from the airfield, from the battered city itself, until at last they had handed over all authority to the Swedes, Danes and Norwegians of the U.N. Expeditionary Force. Then the last thousand "beachhead" troops ended the 48-day occupation and marched aboard the ships that had been waiting for them all the time...