Word: freighter
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...docks of South Philadelphia. He did not finish grade school and never went to high school, much less college. He lived a hard, rough, unforgiving life of manual labor, and died relatively young. Had one found him along the filthy Delaware River, after he finished tying down a freighter, and told him that two of his grandsons would attend Harvard, he would not have known whether to laugh or to cry. While seemingly clichéd, the story of my grandfather has a large bearing on how I ended up here at Harvard. My family’s story...
...last week, but only after the embassy had been ringed by hundreds of Soviet and Afghan troops for five days and its electricity and phone lines cut off. In New Orleans, a dispute continued to simmer over the fate of Miroslav Medvid, the Ukrainian sailor from a Soviet grain freighter who jumped ship twice, only to be returned both times. After Ukrainian-American groups protested that Medvid had been pressured by the Soviets into retracting his request for asylum, Republican Senator Jesse Helms took the extraordinary step of issuing a subpoena for Medvid to appear before a Senate committee...
...triggered an untimely presummit squabble between the superpowers and a clash of wills between the Executive and Legislative branches of the U.S. Government. Soviet Merchant Seaman Miroslav Medvid, 25, had inadvertently created this political uproar on Oct. 24 by leaping 40 feet from the Soviet freighter Marshal Konev into the Mississippi River near New Orleans. When the ship, laden with corn, finally pulled away from its dock last Saturday afternoon with Medvid aboard, a sad personal and political saga that had lasted for more than two weeks apparently drifted off to an unhappy ending...
...which has a list price of $285 million (though airlines rarely pay the published rate on any plane), has been ordered by major airlines around the world, including Air France, Emirates, Lufthansa, Qantas and Virgin. Last month UPS joined FedEx as the second U.S. cargo airline to buy the freighter version. "The A380 is the most significant event in aviation in 40 years--since the introduction of the Boeing 747," says Stephen Forshaw of Singapore Airlines, which will be the first airline to fly the aircraft, in the spring...
When he arrived in New York City in 1926, he was 22, a stowaway on a freighter from Rotterdam, the Dutch port where he had been raised by an imposing, belligerent mother. In the U.S. he worked for years in commercial art before deciding, in the midst of the Depression, to emulate his friend Arshile Gorky and devote himself full time to painting, a choice that guaranteed him a hand-to-mouth existence. Fame arrived around 1950, the year he painted his magnificent, pulsing abstraction Excavation, a field of elbowing contours and a bravura rethinking of Cubist space...