Word: aloft
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When Capitana, after 20 days, reached the approximate position where Columbus said he had seen Trinidad, Professor Morison sent young, square-jawed Seaman Malcolm Armstrong aloft. Seaman Armstrong climbed to the royal yard, called back laconically, "There's them three hills...
...this guy Doug Fairbanks is the first mate on a sailing ship, and he doesn't like to send sailors up aloft when it's blowing and they're liable to get killed, so he quits. And then he goes to a pub and gets lit and there he meets Will Fyffe, who is fat and so Scotch that his burr sticks onto him after he's finished talking. now Will is an engineer and he acts like he's off his rocker, but he's really only a genius. He dreams about steam engines at night. So these...
...Form groups of from six to eight men. Sling rifle from the shoulder, muzzle downward, and raise hands aloft...
This year Netherlands troops guarding the frontier with Germany were visited on St. Nicholas Day by the mitered Saint, bearing aloft his bishop's crook and preceded by capering Peter, who brought sugar cakes for the soldiers. Dutch cameramen snapped St. Nicholas peering through field glasses at cruising bombers outlined against the sky. Amid jollification, Saint and minion tasted the troops' pea soup, which gulping Peter pronounced "prachtig" ("swell...
...airfield, His Majesty spoke the order, "Go into it," over the radio-telephone to a triad of fighters standing alert with propellers idling. When the ships shot aloft and whizzed back over the field in tight formation, he telephoned to their pilots: "That was a beautiful take...