Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stumpy and stubborn, with a pompadour of snowy hair and the operatic manner of a political Toscanini, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Prime Minister of Italy (1917-19), stamped out of the Versailles Conference because the "other three" would not give him the port of Fiume. Clemenceau dubbed him "The Weeper," and Orlando himself recalled proudly: "When ... I knew they would not give us what we were entitled to ... I writhed on the floor. I knocked my head against the wall. I cried. I wanted...
...matchstick-limbed Negro children who climb up on to the coaches begging for bread, by letting off gusts of scalding steam from their locomotives. A mob of Negro hoodlums spewed out of their beer halls, burning and pillaging saloons and municipal offices. Police killed 13. Earlier, in Port Elizabeth, four whites were murdered simply because they were whites. South Africans have often denounced the U.S. press for exaggerating the South African crisis. But Cape Town's Cape Times reported last week: "We are facing something very near a spontaneous combustion of our native people...
Disobedience. Fear made the whites' reaction as volatile and unpredictably savage as the Negroes' wrath. "It's them or us," growled a Port Elizabeth cop. "A white skin now means death." Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nationalist government sent army tanks and armored cars to patrol the highway between East London and Port Elizabeth; low-flying planes "exercised" over the "disaffected areas." In the cities, Boers and Britons alike queued up to buy guns; on the veld, Boer farmers organized rifle commandos, itched to "teach the Kaffirs a lesson they won't forget." "The time...
...publications that advocate "treason, insurrection, or forcible resistance to the laws of the U.S." Acting Postal Solicitor Louis Doyle said that by law his department is responsible for deciding what to ban. Customs officials reported 2% or 3% of the 10,000 to 15,000 shipped to the Port of New York from the Soviet bloc every month are seized...
Still full of faith in its carriers, the Navy announced that the U.S.S. Antietam was in Brooklyn's Naval Shipyard for a million-dollar face-lifting.When the workmen have finished, the rear deck of the Antietam will angle to port so that landing aircraft will no longer head directly toward planes parked at the bow (see diagram...