Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opposed to an "intellectual" or "New York" liberal - inter ested "only in civil rights and immigra tion." As a Senator. Humphrey has worked hard and with some success at winning the regard of conservative Southern politicos, hut as a presidential candidate, he still cannot realistically expect Southern sup port. This pains Humphrey. "I can do pretty good." he says, "in campaigning among the liberal Southerners." The Humphrey camp bases its strategic presidential planning on the argument that the Democratic balance of power shifted westward in the last elections...
After only four months, the Russo-Japanese war was turning into a Russian disaster. Banzai-shouting Japanese troops were pushing the Russians back in Manchuria; Port Arthur was cut off; and the proud Russian ships in the harbor were immobilized by the prowling warships of Japan's Admiral Togo. At that point in June 1904, Czar Nicholas II decided on a last, desperate gamble to relieve the Russian forces; he ordered Vice Admiral Zinovi Petrovitch Rozhestvensky to sail four brand-new Suvoroff battleships at the head of a task force of some 40 ships from their Baltic home ports...
Vest Point. In Port Washington, Wis., when John Jushka sent out his Irish setter on the first day of its training as a retriever, the dog came back with a wallet containing...
...Bringing what he called a godfather grant" of $10 million, of which roughly three-fifths will be spent on a pair of Canadian-built passenger-cargo ships to be owned by the federation, the rest probably on West Indian port and navigational facilities...
...something for them. The best the deans could do was partition off part of the freshman commons and clean out some old game-rooms upstairs for them. This was something like blocking off the small dining room at the Union and airing out some of the little rooms with port-hole windows on the second floor. This scrounged combination was proclaimed with bland irony by the administration, "Wilson Lodge." (Woodrow Wilson always hated the clubs...