Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bluejacket Bates is now on active duty aboard the carrier Philippine Sea in Korean waters...
They talked on Tuesday aboard the presidential yacht after lunch (sea food, soup, roast beef, braised celery, broccoli, beans, chicory salad, cheese & crackers, baked Alaskas, chocolates and assorted nuts). They talked again on Wednesday. At the White House, the Prime Minister passed, twinkling, through the gauntlet of correspondents. In his wake strode towering Ambassador Franks, shortening his ambassadorial step so as not to tread on the ministerial heels. On one occasion Mr. Attlee paused to pose, lighting his pipe. Some photographers missed the action and pleaded with him to light his pipe again. Said the Prime Minister...
...music (particularly when sung by his principal rivals, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry), has never branded a cow or mended a fence, cannot bulldog a steer. Though he has learned to ride competently enough, he would rather see his Nielsen rating drop (last week's: 34.8) than climb aboard a rodeo bronc...
Inhabited Garden. The New World smelled good from the beginning. Columbus noted that "there came so fair and sweet a smell of flowers or trees from the land, that it was the sweetest thing in the world." Almost a century later, Sir Walter Raleigh's colonists, aboard ship off the southeast coast, inhaled "so strong a smel, as if we had bene in the midst of some delicate garden abounding in all kinde of odoriferous flowers, by which we were assured, that the land could not be farre distant...
Grub Afloat. A jolly type with a weather eye for pretty nurses, Bergman had made a quick comeback from the operation; in ten weeks he was back aboard the freighter on light duty. Three months later Dr. Doig let him go back to normal hours and duties. "He must be all right," says Althausen, "or he couldn't eat that ship's food. If you can stand that, you can stand anything...