Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...position is very different today from what it was in 1954. Then all authorities out here judged that the Reds were nowhere near capable of serious attack on Formosa or any part of the island complex. Now Communists have or very soon will have facilities, principally air bases and port establishments, from which they could mount a considerable attack. Their overall internal position and expressed attitude continue to suggest that they intend no such attack and would go to any conceivable length to avoid entanglement with the U.S. at this crucial point in their 'socialist transformation' of China...
...late William Cardinal O'Connell. Dinneen and the cardinal got along well enough, after their fashion. Once, on a ship during a pilgrimage to Rome, Cardinal O'Connell noticed a young lady applying lipstick, upbraided her severely. That evening, while the cardinal relaxed over a glass of port and a cigar, Dinneen asked him why he had been so rough on the girl. "The Holy Virgin Mary didn't use lipstick," said the cardinal. Retorted Dinneen: "And Jesus Christ didn't smoke cigars...
...concern in our relations with the Soviet Union, there has been an accumulation of minor incidents . . . Little or no progress has been made in getting Soviet approval for our air teams to visit Soviet-controlled territory for appraisal of bomb damage, or for our naval team to [inspect the port of] Gdynia. Both proposals were agreed to at Yalta." And so on, around the world, the 43 documents add to the background of the lost peace...
...qualities to comic basso roles, long lost in mere boom-and-rasp renditions. Tenor Cesare Valletti sang with the sweetness and eloquence of a low-pressure Caruso. Pretty Coloratura Peters was expertly coquettish. Using her voice almost as if it were a tangible object, she tossed a trill to port, another to starboard, a third dead amidships of the great opera house...
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass...