Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Duke of Wellington, when he was very old and incredibly distinguished, was telling how once, at mess in the Peninsula, his servant had opened a bottle of port, and inside found...
...first time you go into University Hall notice the large, round wooden frameworks that look like port-holes in the sides of the main floor halls. Imagine yourself looking through these portholes, not into a cozy dean's office, but into a good-sized dining hall. Instead of dining hall, call it Commons, think of freshly cooked food being brought up from the kitchens in the cellar and passed into the Commons through the portholes, and visualize the room full of a much nosier group of students than the sort that eats in the Union these days...
...R.A.F. went after the Baltic port of Liibeck one night in March 1942 because Lübeck was a vital link on the Wehrmacht supply line to Russia. It was no part of the R.A.F. plan that the fire bombs rained down on Lübeck's beautiful 13th Century Marienkirche, but fire melted the church's great bell, gutted the interior. Repair crews got a surprise: whitewash had peeled from the walls, revealing patches of vividly colored frescoes beneath...
...Coyo catches a baby shark and raises it in a pond. Thanks to the fish Ti-Coyo provides, the shark grows up grateful. Then Ti-Coyo goes after the competition. When a liner full of rich Yankees reaches port, Ti-Coyo and his domesticated shark, Manidou, are waiting. The coins fall, the Negroes dive, Manidou darts out and snaps a diver in two. Ti-Coyo slips into the water, scoops up the coins. The shark looks on benevolently...
...Time. In Port Washington, Wis., Mrs. Fred Schuknecht received a birthday card from a friend who had written on the envelope: "Please hurry, postman. I'm late already," under which was wearily scrawled: "Can't. I'm tired...