Word: debark
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...coast at Bluefields arrived the U. S. gunboat Sacramento; from Panama hurried the Rochester, flagship of the Special Service Squadron. But what U. S. citizens along the Nicaraguan coast could not understand was why these war vessels, as on former occasions of murder and insurrection, did not immediately debark their fighting forces and plunge them into the jungle to exact eye-for-an-eye justice...
Nellie Porter Mitchell Armstrong (Dame Nellie Melba), 71, famed operatic soprano, arrived in Freemantle, West Australia, was too ill to debark, was taken off the boat in a cot at Melbourne...
Twelve hundred strong the modern pilgrims--otherwise known as English Congregationalists--will debark at Boston and make a tour of the historic shrines of the earlier Pilgrim Fathers. Whether or not they intend to instill in the present generation the standards of the earlier Puritans is not yet known, but the possibility seems unlikely of their succeeding, although they will hold a service "of reconsecration to the principles of the Pilgrim Fathers." Then, seemingly against their purposes, they will proceed to New York where they will be duly entertained in the wicked city...