Word: gangplank
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...fuzzy world of Japan's new democracy it seemed like a Shinto nightmare. Two thousand hard-jawed Japanese, in jackboots and military khaki, clomped down the gangplank of the transport that had brought them from prison camps in Siberia to their home in Dai Nippon. They clenched fists, bawled the Internationale and the Song of the Kolkhoz...
...News choked on their gum when they read that Miss Hayworth looked "as pale and haggard as though she had walked all the way from Hollywood [to meet her] gold-plated boy friend from mystic India." She scurried aboard the liner Britannic, the Daily News went on, over a gangplank "ordinarily used, dock workers said, to take bodies aboard, or to carry off the ship's refuse...
...Hope took a header running up a studio gangplank, was ordered to bed for a week with a blood clot in his left...
Almost all of the occupation forces' top brass were at the dockside in Yokohama one day last week as Lieut. General Robert Lawrence Eichelberger walked slowly up the gangplank of an Army transport. There were few dry eyes among the generals and colonels. Many an Eighth Army G.I. was in the dumps. Said one hard-faced sergeant: "There goes the best goddam man the Army ever raised." At 62, Bob Eichelberger was going into retirement...
...Down the gangplank the Tommies dragged kicking, screaming, spitting men & women. As one soldier felled a refugee a call went out for doctors. Throughout, the loudspeaker kept relaying jazz music. One selection: Saturday Night Is the Loneliest Night of the Week. Aboard the trains to Poppendorf Camp, refugees crowded around the windows, crying...