Word: gangways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stevenson's plane rumbled up to the crowd, which shrank back respectfully. Politicians and party workers raced through the crowd to get to the gangway. The youthful crowd began to shout section by section, "Wellesley for Adlai!" and "M.I.T. for Adlai!", then "B.U. for Adlai!" As the shouts continued, the elderly Furcolo supporter muttered, "Can anyone here vote...
...pilot had so much wine that we had to keep him awake with coffee. I'm glad they're gone, these foreigners." "We don't need them," said Shiaty. "They won't be back." Then he shook hands with the captain and headed down the gangway to the pilot boat. It was 5:30 p.m. His next ship was due out at dawn...
...Slipping upriver to a hero's well-deserved cheers and whistles, the French liner docked, unloaded 750-odd survivors, and prepared to hurry off again that same night towards France. Some 30 of the survivors were gently carried on stretchers from the ship's infirmary down a gangway to waiting ambulances. On the fantail a weeping Andrea Doria officer called 100 men to a last muster. Commented lie de France's Captain de Beaudean: "Altogether, it was like being back in the war years." Ninety minutes later Cape Ann, no less a hero, docked at Andrea Doria...
...courtesy visit. He was gravely received on the quarterdeck by Rear Admiral George J. Dufek, got an illustrated lecture on the Glacier's part in Operation Deepfreeze, and a copy of R. B. Robertson's 1954 bestselling memoir. Of Whales and Men. On his way down the gangway, he invited the U.S. officers to pay a return visit...
...Voroshilov, the ensign heroically ate his way through an eight-course meal (including caviar, crabmeat, mushrooms, capers and sturgeon), rose repeatedly to respond to vodka toasts. Three hours after he had arrived, he retrieved his cap with dignity from under a picture of Stalin and walked firmly down the gangway, carrying himself like a piece of priceless porcelain and bearing farewell gifts of caviar and whale's teeth. "Don't bother our distinguished guest," said genial Host Solianik to pier-side reporters. "He's still enjoying the pleasures of the table...