Word: aboard
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McGrath later chided attendees for fallingasleep during the speech, which concerned safetyand courtesy aboard Navy vessels and was deliveredby Ret. Capt. George Street, a World War IIveteran and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient...
...August 1941, five months before the United States entered World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aboard a battleship offNewfoundland, Canada, and proclaimed an AtlanticCharter providing for freedom of the seas andleading to the arming of merchant ships...
...captain has turned off the no smoking sign" are words that will no & longer be heard on most U.S. planes. In 1988 a congressional ban on smoking aboard flights lasting less than two hours took effect. Now legislators have reached an agreement to forbid smoking on all commercial flights within the continental U.S. and on flights of six hours or less between the mainland and Alaska and Hawaii. The legislation, which is expected to pass both the House and Senate, also applies to foreign airlines for any part of their flights within the U.S. Flight attendants worried about their...
Professor Simon M. Schama--whose popular course Literature and Arts C-34, "Art and Revolution in Europe" features Bryson's book Word and Image--said he was pleased to have Bryson aboard...
...face-saving yet ultimately self-defeating scheme was designed to permit authorities to engage in the fiction that they were "expelling" disloyal citizens. In the end, this petty legalism only encouraged more to flee. As the freedom trains slowed along hills and at curves, daring East Germans hopped aboard and joined the flight to the West...