Word: port
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the old Long Island whaling port at Sag Harbor to land's end at Washington's Cape Flattery, the U.S. was engaged, once more, in that peculiarly American rite-the celebration of autumn. To millions, it was the finest time of the year; the season which somehow best suited a country which still remembered Indians, wild turkeys, log barns and the long, westward crawling of wagon trains...
Last Sunday, at dawn, revolt exploded in Peru's chief port city of Callao. It was the restless country's second uprising in less than three months. Last time (TIME, July 19) it had been the army; now it was the navy. Rebel sailors and officers seized five warships, locked up or shot their commanders, sent landing parties ashore under cover of a ragged bombardment. Shore-based sailors quickly took over the Naval Academy and the naval armory, moved on to occupy an army barracks and the ancient, star-shaped fortress, Real Felipe...
...Dessert: Port, Sherry, Tokay, Muscatel
...refuses to make any definite statement, Bolles has mentioned Bob Taggart, who spent the early part of last season at the Varsity number five slot, as distinctly eligible for promotion. George Lodge, who held down a position in the jayvee boat last year, has also been looking good at port oar. Bill Leavitt would seem to be in line...
...busy little Columbia River port of Astoria, Ore. (pop. 15,000), almost everybody makes his living by fishing-chiefly for salmon. Last week the school board had approved a new two-year course at the high-school level. Subject: fishing...