Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comic strip called "The Berrys," which won a fourth prize, is the day-to-day epic of a dumb but well intentioned father, a port mother, and two sweet mischievous kiddies. Another freedom award was given to Pasadena's "Tournament of Roses" committee because it sponsored a parade dedicated to "Our American Heritage." Even advertising campaigns dramatizing weary American pioneers trudging through vast wildernesses rated freedom medals. These do not contribute much to understanding freedom, but play up "Americanism" for its own sake...
...officials, but leaked to the press from a Paris official last week. No time was being lost. Bulldozers had already been unloaded in French Morocco, the first group of engineers was on the ground, ships laden with airfield equipment were en route. The seven Moroccan fields were at Port Lyautey, Marrakech, Casablanca, Meknes, Rabat, Kourigha, Nouasseur. The incoming Americans would find the flat, sparsely wooded terrain ideal for military aircraft bases, but would run into difficulties with the heat (120° in the summer shade) and the housing (very tight...
...treacherous ice. While British tanks dueled across the river with Communist self-propelled guns (and with one captured British tank fired by the Reds from a tunnel), two armored U.S. task forces sped northwest and west to take Kimpo Airfield, Korea's biggest, and Inchon, Seoul's port, without a fight. Both were almost total ruins...
...wild, mountainous region, seemingly perfect for Communist guerrilla tactics. The people who cultivate the valleys are Thais;* in the mountains live Muongs. Both belong to the Thai Federation, part of Bao Dai's Viet Nam state. Last December, while the French were fighting desperately to hold the port of Hanoi, Communist forces drove into the Thai and Muong country, pushed the French frontier guards back 100 miles to the outpost town of Lai Chau. The Communists then set about winning over Thais and Muongs...
...Palizzi is a little freighter on the Black Sea-Mediterranean run. A fortnight ago, two weeks out from the port of Burgas in Communist Bulgaria, the Palizzi tied up at Marseille, began discharging cargo. French customs men let the cargo lie on the dock for three days. Then uniformed officers of the Sūreté Nationale (French security police) stamped up the Palizzi gangway, questioned the captain. Had he found any stowaways aboard this trip? No, said the captain. Come along, said the Sūreté, we're going to open up some of your cargo...