Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From halfway around the world, TIME-Reader George Willstead Rodrigues recently wrote us about his job as an assistant harbor master of the Calcutta Port Trust. The Calcutta harbor is one of the world's most difficult to navigate. And one of the toughest jobs there is that of the assistant harbor master, who pilots ships up the treacherous Hooghly, one of the several mouths of India's sacred Ganges...
...because he had to be home at 5:30 for a tea in honor of Mamie Eisenhower. At the Tafts' red brick Victorian house in Georgetown, men who had been snarling at one another over the Bohlen case met, chatted and sipped. Everything was as sweet as California port until one of the guests, American-turned-Briton Nancy Astor, sidled up to Joe McCarthy. Said razor-tongued Lady Astor, eying Joe's drink: "I hope it's poison." Said Joe later: "I've been informed that some nice, kindly old lady did make that remark...
...coast of Europe and into the English Channel moved the tiny Galeb, beneath an umbrella of R.A.F. planes. Tito transferred to the Port of London launch Nore, passed up the Thames under London's bridges (closed off and guarded by armed police) to Westminster Pier for a grade A reception by Prime Minister Churchill, Foreign Secretary Eden, the Duke of Edinburgh, a 166-man brass band. Then a War Office armored Rolls-Royce with bulletproof windowglass whisked Tito and Churchill off to No. 10 Downing Street...
Elected to the Committee were Richard L. Berkley of Kansas City, Mo. and Eliot House; Ted Briggs of Port Chester, N.Y. and Lowell House; Richard J. Fouquet of Bayside, N.Y. and Dunster House, Sidney George Kane of Dorchester; and Ridlon Joseph Kiphart of Cincinnati and Kirkland House...
...Yalta, over a year later, Stalin bargained for Port Arthur, Dairen and the Kuril Islands in return for a promise to enter the war against Japan. "I only want to have returned to Russia what the Japanese have taken from my country," he said. "That seems," said Franklin Roosevelt, "like a very reasonable suggestion...