Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salty, four-letter expletives and the sloppy, earthy habits of his hardbitten shipmates on the way south. Big. strong, self-sufficient, Paul ignored them, won a spot as a regular deckhand, shoveled as much coal, scraped as many barnacles, and demonstrated as sound seamanship as any man aboard...
...This," declared the U.S. Secretary of State, "will be an important meeting, perhaps the most important such meeting that has been held." Saying this, John Foster Dulles last week stepped aboard a special MATS Constellation and headed for Paris and the semiannual ministerial meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. His own convalescence at an end, Dulles was determined to bring good health to an ailing NATO...
...free." This came on the heels of his order establishing "Operation Safe Haven," a plan to bring the announced quota of 21,500 Hungarians (TIME, Dec. 10) to the U.S. by Jan. 1. Set into motion by the Defense Department, Safe Haven will carry 5,000 people aboard three oceangoing transports, about 10,000 aboard MATS and commercial planes. U.S. Labor Department officials aboard the three ships will process the Hungarians, hope to have them job-classified by the time they reach U.S. shores...
...last week, as the moment for parting arrived, the athletes bound for home climbed aboard buses headed for the Melbourne airport. "It's a terrible thing to see them go," said a Melbourne Hungarian, while a girl athlete sobbed near by. Next day the 45 who had decided to stay in the West climbed into buses to board another plane, bound for freedom. Even for them, there was no joy. Hearts torn in two directions are not quick to gaiety, and at the airport even a champion wrestler was seen to be weeping unashamed...
Although all of Compass Island's instruments have been laboratory-tested, they have never before been tested at sea or linked together to form a whole system. With observing scientists from M.I.T. and Sperry Gyroscope aboard, Compass Island will put to sea in January to test SINS' accuracy in familiar Atlantic coastal waters. After that it will put back into port periodically to take on new equipment for testing. If the system functions as well as the Navy hopes, it may well be installed aboard submarines and other missile-launching vessels by the summer...