Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wagon. Susan got restless in the cart, delivering her only comment: "Hey, help me out." That matched Ike's sentiments. Ike told David he could drive on alone up to the farmhouse. Then the President, the girls and their father, not forgetting a black Scottie named Skunky, climbed aboard Ike's jeeplike Crosley...
Dear TIME-Reader: ABOARD the Polish ship Batory en route to Russia, Communist travelers gave Pierre Boulat, 31-year-old Paris photographer, a rough passage. "You are a dirty Fascist from TIME," the Communists jeered. "You are a corrupt photographer." But when the ship docked at Leningrad, the spirit of Geneva was still aglow. Soviet newsmen welcomed Boulat: "We know you are from TIME. How happy we are to see you!" And they whisked him about the city in a big black ZIS, stuffed him with food, and loaded him with gifts of caviar, jewelry and dolls...
...Later, as they were leaving the restaurant, the Grahams overheard someone saying that a plane had crashed. Unable to get any detailed information at the airport, they drove home. The radio confirmed their apprehensions: Flight 629 had crashed 32 miles north of Denver. Mrs. King and all 43 others aboard the DC-6B were dead. "We finally heard his mother's name on the radio," Gloria reported, "and Jack just collapsed completely...
Sealed Orders. In Manhattan, Edward Mulstay, 54, returned from an unplanned, 19-day trip to Europe, explained ruefully that he had left his hearing aid at home when he went to a bon-voyage party aboard the liner America, failed to hear the ail-ashore whistle blow...
Running on his own courage, Social Outcast had circled wide to reach the stretch and raced himself out. He faded and finished third. Aboard El Chama, Venezuela's leading jockey, Raul Bustamante, had rated his mount carefully and saved ground on the inside; now he moved up smartly. Prendase had enough left to make a fight of it, but not quite enough to get his head under the wire in front of the fast-driving El Chama...