Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bounced merrily down to Fairhaven to look at his boat. The day overhead was dark, and occasional drops of rain and mist spread over his windshield as he made his way through the New England manufacturing towns that lie between Boston and New Bedford, and the harbor looked cold and grey to him as he crossed over the bridge to Fairhaven and pulled through winding slum streets to the yacht yard. The yard looked mournful, too: several fishermen from Nantucket, old home of the whalers, were tied up at the quay making repairs before going out onto winter waters, while...
...hand of death itself. He mused a bit in the half light of the tin shed, and his eye caught on a splintered piece of the coaming, where a catboat full of roisters, flown with insolence and wine, had rammed him at anchor one moonlight night in Newport harbor. He burned a little, thinking of the language he'd used at them, and then smiled at the recollection of the derisive answer he'd got from a sharp contralto voice on the cat: and how he'd asked them to come aboard for forgiveness and more refreshments. He thought...
...Nanking. What was keeping him awake was not only the north and Shanghai fronts, but the city of Haichow where there was as yet no fighting at all, a seaport south of the Shantung peninsula, connected with railroads at Peiping and Nanking at Suchow. Japanese warships were off Haichow harbor, but did this mean more than the blockade of Chinese ports? If Japan had enough men to spare to land a third army at Haichow she could cut off help from Nanking to the Chinese armies of the north...
Subnappers. At Brest, France last week the Leftist submarine C-2 still lay tied up in the harbor awaiting repairs that were started three weeks ago. Out of the darkness appeared eleven Spaniards, one Frenchman in civilian clothes. They clambered down the companionway with word that they bore special sealed orders from Valencia. The C-2's commander, José Luis Ferrando, met his guests formally in the companionway, suddenly found himself squinting down the muzzles of a dozen pistols. The visitors actually were renegade Leftist officers from another Valencia submarine, the C4, also up for repairs at Bordeaux...
They would have succeeded were it not for the fact that the engines would not start and that a Leftist engineer dodged behind a bulkhead and began firing his pistol, killing one of the raiders. Before French harbor police had been able to come out to investigate the row the subernappers had escaped, taking Commander Ferrando with them as hostage. At Bélin near Bordeaux French police captured one of their two escaping cars, interned the lot. Among them was Miguel Juan Las Heras, Commander of the C4. Immediately it became apparent that Commander Ferrando had not been kidnapped...