Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Saigon had been ready for trouble and had taken special precautions against terrorism by the Communist Viet Cong, May Day had come and gone quietly. But at 5 the next morning, the South Vietnamese capital was jolted by a roar from the harbor. There, the 9,800-ton U.S. aircraft-transport ship Card was sinking fast -it touched bottom in just 24 minutes-into the silt of the Saigon River, a 28-ft. by 3-ft. hole ripped in her starboard side. Apparently Viet Cong agents had placed plastic charges on the hull 10 ft. below the water line...
...This white citizen shudders when he reads that the Denver Post thinks any group of Americans looks "silly" when demonstrating against racial inequality [April 24]. Imagine the outrage of certain Boston housewives when all that tea was dumped in the harbor! Senator Humphrey's remarks about the "inconvenience" to World's Fair visitors ring very hollow...
...storm-tossed mariners, she was the first and only daughter of her finny race to serve as Neptune's permanent, peaceful ambassador to the footed world. Inspired by the Andersen story, a sculptor gave her form. Her abode became a wave-washed rock outside Copenhagen's harbor; her sleek, demure figure personified the life-giving sea and sea-sustained Denmark...
...business trip to the Far East, made three speeches. The last one was in Washington, before the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Clearly not excluding Cabot Lodge from his appraisal, Nixon said: "Confidence in and respect for American leadership in Southeast Asia is at its lowest point since Pearl Harbor." But few Republicans seemed to be scrambling-so far, at least-to hitch themselves to Nixon's star. And Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton was still insisting that he really, really wanted no part of the presidential nomination...
Chesapeake Bay is one of the world's great waterways. In effect, it is one huge harbor. Within its sheltered waters, Baltimore grew into a major port, and the U.S. Navy as early as 1917 picked Norfolk as its chief East Coast base. But its mouth, from Cape Charles on the north to Cape Henry on the south, is 13 miles across, and until a few years ago it did not occur to anyone that it could be bridged. Getting from one side to the other meant a H-hour ferry ride or a roundabout inland route of some...