Word: unload
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orders, no ramps were rolled up to the silent plane. A fuel truck drove under its huge wing, and the ground crew hooked up a fuel line. "It was strange," recalls Second Officer Norman Simmons. "A routine landing in every way, except that we didn't unload passengers or baggage." Aboard the jet the passengers sat in shocked silence as a hostess instructed them to stay in their seats: "We may be flying on to Havana." Cody Bearden lounged in the doorway of the cabin, casually swinging his .45 revolver and keeping a sullen eye on the frightened passengers...
Dead of Night. For the sake of secrecy, the area had been cleared of all workers, but to the consternation of the police official who hurried on board, the Soviet captain could not or would not use his ship's cranes to unload his cargo, meaning that scores of local stevedores had to be awakened and rushed down to do the job by hand. For five hours, until well after dawn, the sweating workers lugged thousands of cases of small arms and ammunition down to waiting police trucks. Finally, the heavily laden vehicles headed off in convoy...
...free market price began to climb, finally inched permanently past the Treasury purchase price of 90½ in 1956. In the past two years the price has been high enough to permit the U.S. to begin to unload its huge supply. Last year the U.S. was able to sell off nearly 20 million oz., had to buy only 1,000,000 oz., since U.S. silver producers were able to get a higher price in the free market...
Security & Substance. The possibility of enthusiastic inhospitality to Khrushchev brought real problems. Longshoremen promised that they would not unload Baltika, threatened to hire boats to follow the Russian liner into port with heckles cracking the air. The U.N. security section fattened its number from 200 to 300, banned-all but official visitors from the premises during the General Assembly sessions. The U.S. military and State Department moved intelligence and security details into Manhattan...
...harder Nixon tries to unload Benson, the more the Democrats are determined to keep the Benson burden on Nixon's back. In a speech at Monticello, Iowa last week, Lyndon Johnson reminded his audience that Nixon once called Benson "one of the best Secretaries of Agriculture in our history." Benson's "chief helpers" in aggravating the farm problem, Johnson insisted, were President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon...