Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London reported that another shipload of Communist arms-the seventh since January-recently arrived at the Yemen port of Salif, where, under the telescopes of watchers on the British Kamaran Islands in the Red Sea, Egyptian officers directed the unloading of T-34 tanks, piston-engine trainer planes, antiaircraft guns, military vehicles and small arms. The British, already in trouble fighting the Imam of Oman at the eastern end of the Arabian peninsula, now face the possibility of difficulty from the Imam of Yemen on their Aden borders. In supplying arms to the Imam of Yemen, the Russians counted...
Covering the Mediterranean waterfront for the Hearst press, Elsa Maxwell tersely laid the scene of a Stavros Niarchos wingding-"The Creole, at anchor in the port of Villefranche, lay low in the water like a black panther of the sea"-pounded out the hard news with dispatch-"It was too funny for words. Mrs. Guinness took off her shoes. The Duchess did her conception of the calypso. Harold Vanderbilt begged me to dance with him. I refused only because, though I love Harold, I cannot dance"-but lost, control in her bread-and-butter blurb: "When I said good night...
...Signal? Schevill has been fascinated by whale talk since he worked with the Navy during World War II. During his work he made tapes of underwater sounds, later tried them out on an ancient mariner from the whaling port of New Bedford. One sound always got an instantaneous response from the ex-whaler: "That's a sperm snappin' his spouter...
...Compared with 8,346,137 pop. for London's 693 sq. mi., 7,771,509 for New York's 319 sq. mi. Greater Tokyo (which includes the sprawling port of Yokohama) is also much more heavily populated (approximately 20 million) than either the New York metropolitan area (15.5 million) or Greater London (10 million...
...beard, beret and bikini set of latter-day painters into a foot-stamping tizzy with a decision that no nudes will be shown in this week's Sixth Annual Arts Festival. Artists answered the challenge with a threat to stage an all-nude show at nearby Rock-port's Bearskin Neck, began peppering the local newspaper with impassioned protests ("As an artist I love what God created, and I never want to see pants on plants"). At week's end hard-pressed Festival Chairman Ken Gore announced that the ban was only against "questionable nudes," and none...