Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went off in pursuit of sea gulls. I found the object was a brown bottle . . . The cork . . . crumpled in my fingers. How the note kept dry, nobody can understand. It must have been because you mentioned God's name on it, and He brought it to safe harbor . . . I sat there on the beach and read...
...abdicated, and quit Egypt within the six hours specified. As he stood on the quay to embark, his huge, beefy frame encased in a white naval uniform, tears spilled down his cheeks. Twenty-one guns fired the royal salute, and the royal yacht Mahroussa (meaning Protected) put past the harbor's red and green entrance lights and steamed for Italy. It carried Farouk, his 19-year-old wife, their seven-month-old son, now King Fuad II, and 204 royal trunks...
...Mile Stench. Pusan is a city of filth, poverty and disease-yet it is the major supply port of the Korean war. Its harbor is jampacked with ships from nearly a score of nations, bringing in fresh men and equipment, taking out the wounded and sick and wrecked or worn-out equipment. Pusan's days & nights are noisy with the clatter of U.S. military traffic, ancient taxis, rachitic streetcars (some from Atlanta), and the snorting and lowing of oxen. In dry weather dust all but obscures the city's one traffic light, which is attended by a listless...
Glittering in his gold-laced uniform, Denmark's King Frederik boarded the 1,054-ton royal yacht Dannebrog in Copenhagen harbor and weighed anchor for Greenland on his first official visit since 1921. Queen In grid, who does not share her salty husband's love of the sea, announced that she would make the trip...
Though Manx Shearwaters usually migrate roughly north-and-south, Puffinus did not hesitate. He turned east over Boston Harbor and headed straight for home and eggs. Ahead, by the shortest route, lay nearly 3,300 miles of the North Atlantic. Puffinus, if he followed the custom of his species, rested occasionally on the water or stopped in a likely spot to refuel with plankton, small water creatures found just below the ocean's surface. But Puffinus wasted no time. He finished the homing trip in 12 3/4 days, averaging about 250 miles...