Word: guards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 3½ hours a laconic voice announced over the loudspeaker: "As you may know, the ship has gone aground." Two tugs and a U.S. Coast Guard cutter came, tugged futilely and quit. Reporters swarmed out in small boats, were driven off by ship's officers who brandished a fire hose...
...police officers. They were all together by prearrangement. They had complained to their bosses that the three smaller junks in which they usually traveled made them seasick. As some of the 35 lazed on the sunny deck, one of them engaged the Pak Tang's armed Communist guard (there is always one aboard) in a game of chess...
...guard bent over the chessboard, absorbed in the play, he was seized from behind. As he struggled, one of the nearby sun bathers snatched up an ax, sent it smashing into his skull. A moment later the carefully concealed knife of another laborer slammed twice into his stomach. Finally, someone gave the guard the coup de grace-with his own pistol...
Even before the guard was dead the rest of the Pak Tang's human cargo came swarming out of her holds. At this onrush, one of the government's two functionaries aboard leaped into the sea; the other, after a brief struggle, was wounded and overpowered. Jubilantly, the mutineers ordered the Pak Tang's nine cowering crewmen to change course for Hong Kong and freedom. But despite all threats, the crew refused, and at last, in desperation, one of the mutineers took the helm. Luckily, before the morning was out the Hong Kong Marine Police spotted...
...band of Algonquin Indians looked up and saw the square-rigger Mayflower bobbing off the shores of Massachusetts. To their minds this, understandably, was an unexpected sight. Last week, as a reasonable facsimile of the ship sailed-or, more exactly, was towed (against the tide by a Coast Guard cutter)-into sight of thousands at Provincetown, on Cape Cod, there was no surprise, for the voyage of Mayflower II had for months been heralded in the land till many New Englanders grew bored or cynical. Yet, as Mayflower II picked up her mooring, even the cynics forgot their suspicions, jumped...