Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daily oil imports total about 2,500,000 bbls. Of that, about 2,000,000 bbls., or 80%, come from the Middle East. Tankers carry about 1,200,000 bbls. a day through the Suez; the other 800,000 bbls. are sluiced through pipelines to Mediterranean ports and pumped aboard tankers there. Assuming that Nasser does not succeed in getting his Arab neighbors to cut off the pipelines (which would virtually amount to an act of war), Western Europe can concentrate its worries on finding a way to make up for the loss of the 1,200,000 bbls...
...months, the eleven men lived in filth and boredom, their bodies nourished only by a meager ration of moldy bread that the Egyptians allowed aboard and the brackish water left in their original supply. Their spirits shriveled in a never-ending monotony of card playing ("The one deck we had got shredded"), and they were continually insulted, often spat upon, by the Egyptian guards...
That thirst for knowledge which causes man to seek what lies in the heart of hurricanes and harridans had sent a U.S. B50 typhoon reconnaissance plane flying up into the thickest of the weather with 16 men aboard. Somewhere in Emma's maw the B50 broke radio contact and was never heard or seen again. Emma whipped on, toward Soviet Sakhalin...
Cheers & Boos. Taking Running Mate Estes Kefauver aboard, Stevenson cruised next day to Los Angeles, where his attack on the Administration's defense and foreign policies was roundly booed by some of the 5,000 delegates and guests at the American Legion's national convention. The Legion listened silently as Stevenson angrily charged that "the claim that Democrats were responsible for the Korean war and that the Republicans stopped it ... is as miserable a fraud as has ever been used by a political party to confuse and embitter...
...Have We Done Enough?" Aboard the plane. Stevenson donned horn-rimmed glasses and busily worked over speech drafts while Estes sucked at a cigar, still in its wrapper, then put on his black eyeshade and slippers, threw his long legs across an arm rest and slept...