Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when Colonel Mobutu's troops finally got their hands on the fleeing Lumumba, he already was beyond remote Port Francqui, a steamboat stop on the Kasai River, 400 miles from Leopoldville. As angry crowds surrounded the Port Francqui police station shouting "Judas" and "Traitor," the soldiers wired their army boss to collect Lumumba immediately, or they would shoot him for treason. Sternly, Mobutu sent back word not to harm the prisoner and dispatched a plane to pick him up. "I cannot judge him. He must defend himself before the courts," explained Mobutu...
...regular navy officer. The "very odd and very gifted" Physicist Lindemann was "repressed, suspicious, malevolent." A fanatic Englishman-by-adoption, he was a fierce ascetic who shunned sensual pleasures. Snow recalls him as "an extreme and cranky vegetarian who lived largely on the whites of eggs,† Port Salut cheese and olive...
says When now we meet, across the port...
...behind dog-sleds and drinking around rickety tables in desolate cabins in the Arctic. C. P. Snow writes nothing of the sort, but as writers he and London have one thing in common: both sell well in the Soviet countries. Snow writes of men in committees, Cambridge dons drinking port around gleaming mahogany tables, contemporary Britons struggling with love and over power. And these novels of his Strangers and Brothers series appear in Moscow and Warsaw with the same success as in London and Washington...
...fall, what with the special distraction of politics and the usual competition of new television shows, movie business has been sluggish. Reaction: a demi-epidemic of pictures about prostitution, the most severe of recent years. Now showing in the U.S.: Never on Sunday, Butterfield 8, Girl of the Night, Port of Desire, Rosemary. And last week Suzie Wong, the biggest (it cost $4,000,000, runs 129 minutes) and possibly the dullest of them all, won a dubious distinction: it became the first trollopera ever to play Manhattan's family-minded cathedral of cinema, Radio City Music Hall...