Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July 1, a 716-ton freighter bound through the Red Sea on legitimate business for the port of Aqaba, Jordan, and proceeding in international waters, was stopped by a warning shot from a corvette. An armed party "from the corvette boarded the freighter, locked her crew below decks for 13 hours, looted the ship's stores and smashed its radio. The Foreign Secretary of the affronted nation sat on the story for ten days while he nervously checked and rechecked accounts of the incident. When the Foreign Secretary finally protested this violation of his nation's rights...
...narrow opening in the boom or "she would slice off her bottom." As she approached it, a flare went up, Communist guns opened fire and the river erupted in waterspouts. Kerans saw a single light on the boom and prayerfully made a blind guess: "Steer just to port of the light." And the Amethyst went through without scraping her paint...
Negro boy named Doodoo Lawrence and inducted him into a Robin Hood band. Costumed in green and armed with bows, they would swoop down on some rich squire (such as a boy carrying groceries home), rob him and eat his riches in the forest. In Port Clyde, Maine, where the family spent the summers, Andy found another native nonconformist. Together they learned to handle a dory in heavy surf and to loot lobstermen's pots at night...
...been exhibited and sold out more than once in Manhattan. More important, he had found and married a striking brunette named Betsy James, the daughter of a summer neighbor, who had made up her mind to be a helpful wife. They built a summer place at Gushing, near Port Clyde, took over an old schoolhouse in Chadds Ford for winter living...
...hold them up to-public light." Last week, at its annual convention in San Francisco, it did so. The enemies that N.E.A. had in mind were no ordinary critics of the public schools. They were a handful of right-wing groups that have made their influence felt from Port Washington, N.Y., to Pasadena, Calif. "They have one characteristic in common: bigotry," said Richard B. Kennan of the N.E.A.'s Defense Commission. Their chief obsession: that U.S. education is headed straight for Communism...