Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arriving aboard Turkey's S.S. Istanbul (he refuses to travel on Israeli boats because the Jewish crews must work on the Sabbath), Teitelbaum was welcomed by a crowd of black-robed, bearded Jews, who had waited along Haifa's docks under a burning sun. A few yards away, well segregated from their men, stood the women, sweating heavily under their enveloping black garments, which left only hands and face exposed to the air. The rabbi walked down the gangplank supported by two of the Israeli policemen that he recently compared to "Hitler's Gestapo." When photographers tried...
Then, something happened. From the radio came tense bulletins: Flight 102-Pan American's London-bound Boeing 707 jet-taking off at 8:37 from Long Island's Idlewild Airport, had lost two wheels from its four-wheeled left landing gear. There were 113 people aboard. The big 707 was circling, preparing for a .crash landing. The whole city seemed to sit bolt upright. From Manhattan, from Queens and Brooklyn on the western bulge of Long Island, whole families poured into cars and headed for Idlewild. Within minutes, thousands of autos were turtle-crawling the highway mazes leading...
...holy men waving fans and yak tails, the priests began bringing out the gods. The crowd cheered and surged against police lines at the sight of each deity swathed in colored gauze, profusely garlanded and shaded by an umbrella. In a shimmering uproar of crashing gongs they were loaded aboard their high carts. The 29-year-old Raja of Puri, hereditary superintendent of the Jagannath Temple, swept each cart with a golden broom to show that in the eyes of the god all men are lowly...
...been Tom Dewey's running mate in 1948.) Nixon, though pledged with the California delegation to Warren for President, was an active Eisenhower advocate who had also talked privately about the vice presidency with Ikemen Tom Dewey and Herbert Brownell. Fresh from Chicago convention headquarters, Nixon swung aboard the Warren train at Denver, began spreading the word of Eisenhower's growing strength, got some Californians to let Warren know that they would stick with him only in the first ballot, then swing to Ike. The threatened rebellion never came off, because Eisenhower got the nomination on the first...
...their beards and brains flying like butterflies, let them approach the shores of the Dominican Republic," warned Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. A pair of Cuba-based rebel invasion forces-one of 63 men arriving by C46 at the mountain-ringed, mid-island town of Constanza, and another of 150 aboard two Chris-Craft launches that landed near Puerto Plata on the north coast-put the strongman's boast to the test of arms. Last week, both by government and rebel account, Trujillo proved that he meant what he said...