Word: gangplanks
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...taxed Argentine pampas. Stopping over in New Orleans, Patiño jammed himself into a ten-room suite in the Roosevelt Hotel. In a grey suit, wearing a grey fedora and grey gloves, he visited the French Quarter. Although rumored to be ill, he strode boldly up the steep gangplank to the S.S. Rio Jachal. Asked a reporter: "How does it feel to be so rich...
...changes in Norway's political climate during their absence. But seldom has a returning Government in Exile been so warmly welcomed. Hundreds of fjordside villagers went out in small boats to meet the liner which brought Nygaardsvold home. When the Premier and his Ministers walked down the gangplank, hundreds of stolid Norwegians wept...
...ripples on Flensburger Forde glittered in the bright sunlight as Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, last Führer of the Third Reich, marched stiffly up the gangplank of the Patria, an old German liner housing a SHAEF mission. His long blue coat whipped at his knees, and his aides followed him in single file...
...Defense Headquarters at Ottawa announced that Private W. H. Smith had been sentenced to 18 months' detention after confessing: "On Jan. 2, 1945, as I was crossing the gangplank, embarking on the ship for overseas, I deliberately threw my rifle and two kit bags overboard. I figured the military police would take me off the boat when I did this." The police...
...Someday when Pfc. John M. Stevens darn near fractures a vertebra hurrying down the gangplank onto Manhattan we'll be there to plant a nice lipstickish American kiss on his pouty lips. Cheerio, Johnnie, we'll be seeing...