Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...countdown: "Five, four, three, two . . ." At the count of two, he will ease his thrust levers (throttles) back and reduce power; all four engines will slow to comparative quiet as he glides over the truck. Hopefully, he will not register too much noise on the recorders that the Port of New York Authority has nearby...
Strasbourg, like Boston, is a port with a history as a "cradle of liberty," Wiggins said, and the two cities are roughly equivalent in size. The University of Strasbourg is almost as large as Harvard, but within five years it will probably boast an enrollment of 20,000 students...
...disease first showed up in the port city of Rostock fortnight ago, was traced to a shipment of butter imported from Red China. Muttered one stricken East Berliner: "It's a typical disease of the Wall. Before the Wall went up, we could at least buy green vegetables in West Berlin, but all winter long we got practically no vegetables, and when this dysentery bug appeared, we had no resistance...
...guns. Argued De Quay's Foreign Minister Joseph Luns: ''How can you go to the conference table announcing in advance that you will capitulate on the very issue you are going to talk about?" Finally the Calvinists caved in, and the government won majority sup port for its refusal to hand over New Guinea...
...Essex; United Artists). Man stands at the edge of space like a child at the edge of the sea, skipping sophisticated, multimillion-dollar pebbles that sink out of sight. What man needs is a ship that he can sail on the new ocean and bring safely back to port. Four years ago, he produced the first crude model of such a ship, a rowboat of the infinite called...