Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Port Arthur, Texas...
...choosing the capital site on the island of Trinidad, a special committee spent more than two months touring the island, finally selected the inactive U.S. Naval Base on Chaguaramas Bay, eight miles from Port of Spain on the island's northwest tip. The site was one of the bases leased to the U.S. by Britain in 1940 in exchange for 50 vintage destroyers. Deactivated in 1955, the base has been carefully maintained. The existence of such readymade facilities was one of the base's most attractive points to the site-seekers. At week's end U.S. officials...
...PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, May 14--Haiti's ruling council today battled a rising tide of rebellion that threatened at any moment to explode into a shooting...
Named to assist Yovicsin as backfield coach was Roger I. Robinson. He coached football and track at Port Jervis (N.Y.), High School, and is a former Syracuse star. Robinson will plan the backfield's new T-formation attack...
Dancer Holder credits the birth of his fast-moving career to his Negro father, a "salesman with brains" in Port of Spain, Trinidad, who said, "If you put the tools in front of the baby, the baby will walk up to the tools." One day daddy Holder went out and blew the rent money on a piano. Pretty soon Geoffrey's older brother, Boscoe, began to bang at the keyboard in the evenings, and Geoffrey copied him. When Boscoe developed a taste for painting and then for dancing, Geoffrey copied him again. Endowed with natural rhythm and a body...