Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George S. Patton Jr., widow of the wartime commander of the U.S. Third Army, was notified of the death of her daughter, Mrs. John K. Waters, after a widespread sea search by the Coast Guard, radiotelegraph stations and a commercial radio station. Mrs. Patton put in to port and rushed back to her daughter's home in Highland Falls...
...race of two-headed men. 87. Jiirgen Spanuth, Lutheran pastor, who set out from the port of Husum late this summer, claims he found: 1. The Lost Atlantis...
...Union (A.F.L.), Stevenson presented his hosts a verbal bouquet ("You have made an admirable civilization. It is a jambalaya containing all that makes for the body's pleasure, the mind's delight, the spirit's repose"), then discussed foreign trade, essential to New Orleans' busy port. Said Stevenson: "The "suicidal foreign-trade fanaticism" of the Republicans, who were responsible for the Hawley-Smoot tariff (1930), would kill off foreign trade, would -by not buying from Japan and Germany -drive these countries into Communist arms. He also graphically described post-Civil War conditions in Louisiana, including malaria...
...passenger R.A.F. Hastings transport specially reserved for him. At Singapore, while the plane lay all night in the blaze of 50 searchlights, troops watched over the tousled man as he slept. A few days later, his plane journey over, the man boarded a Royal Navy frigate at an obscure port in northwest Australia and headed for a rendezvous 50 miles away...
...starred Russian plane flew "toward the center of the U.N. [naval] formation in a hostile manner," eventually opening fire on the U.S. fighters. The U.S.S.R. claimed an "outrageous violation" of international law, insisted that the Soviet bomber was unarmed and flying a harmless practice mission out of Port Arthur...