Word: ramp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday the whereabouts of President Roosevelt was undisclosed, but the chances were that he was not at church. When he is home in Hyde Park the President usually attends service at St. James's Episcopal* Church, of which he has been senior warden since 1928. But the special ramp and awning (put up at Presidential expense) at a side door of St. Thomas' in Washington has not been used since Easter 1941. This is not entirely a matter of Presidential choice. The Secret Service sensibly holds that the President's life might be endangered if, during...
...squadrons of U.S. airmen, rigid at attention while the 94° heat wilted their khaki and soaked their hats. He stood there for a long moment, looking about him, blinking under the sun of a land he had never seen before. Then slowly Charles de Gaulle moved down the ramp, looking even taller than his 6 ft. 4 in., even thinner than his pictures. As his foot touched the ground, the 17-gun salute to a general roared into the hazy heat (four guns less than the salute for the head of a state). The faint est smile passed across...
...Navy's landing craft, the LSM may become even more famous than the LST. The LSM has a 34-ft. beam, is some 100 ft. shorter than the 328-ft. LST. As in her bigger sister, two doors in her broad nose open and a ramp drops down for her cargo to roll ashore...
...Landing Craft, Personnel), 36 ft. long, with or without ramp, for 30 to 36 assault troops...
...Landing Ship, Tank), a 328-ft., ocean-going ship with a tank ramp...