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n. - The act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft.

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  • Wrigth should have left the young man alone to pursue the inspiring and veritable political embarkment.
  • The aircraft and crew were not necessarily assigned to any of the points of embarkment or disembarkment.
  • Bay; and, though very rainy, with squalls of wind, the embarkment immediately commenced, and was continued all night.
  • Aliwal North police spokesman Major Johan Venter told Sapa the bus was travelling down the curving pass when it veered off the road about 3. 45am, and rolled over an...
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