Word: gangplank
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...smoke, then the long cigar, then the familiar, stoop-shouldered hulk that a generation had come to know as the silhouette of greatness. Prime Minister Winston Churchill scowled as he emerged from the Queen Mary, took a firm grip on the rope handrail and eased himself across a gangplank to the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Navesink in New York Harbor. Once safely on board the cutter, he politely doffed his hat* to official U.S. meeters & greeters...
Fourteen hundred men of Canada's 27th Infantry Brigade filed down a gangplank at Rotterdam one morning last week and paraded through a cold drizzle to the Stadhuis (city hall). There, Defense Minister Brooke Claxton formally turned the brigade over to General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Said Ike: "I know you will be worthy representatives of your great country in this endeavor, which is to secure the peace...
...raced up a gangplank at Wolfe's Cove one grey, cold morning last week seemed like vacation-bound tourists. Except for a handful of tearful relatives, the pier was a scene of gay, bustling activity as the first contingent of the 27th Infantry Brigade shoved off to join the NATO armies in Germany...
...lady stepped nimbly aside as a squad of ten heavily armed marines followed the first one up the gangplank. An ECA official who also got in the way was peremptorily brushed aside. A moment later, before anybody fully realized what had happened, Siam's Premier, waving a cordial farewell to his erstwhile guests, was whisked away upriver in a navy landing craft. A fusillade of gunfire splattered over the heads of the crowd, and the elegantly garbed guests on the dredge dived for the deck like well-trained rangers...
...mother's scream rose shrilly. Four-year-old Diana Svet, walking down the gangplank of the Yugoslav passenger-freighter Srbija at a Brooklyn pier last week, had broken away from her mother, started running, slipped and plunged into the narrow crevice between ship and pier...