Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...calm. The U.S. Navy communications ship Liberty, a converted Victory freighter, was steaming west-northwesterly at five knots, about 14 nautical miles off the Sinai Peninsula. Seconds later, lookouts sighted jet fighters bearing in from the southeast at 7,000 ft. A rocket slammed into Liberty's port side amidships, igniting two 55-gal. gasoline drums; a bomb struck the starboard side. The planes, sweeping down in teams of two or more, raked the ship with crisscross rocket and machine-gun fire, riddling hull and superstructure with 821 hits...
...Sedita told a delegation of Negro youths. "Give me a chance to get the message across. I will tell them that your grievances are just and that we'd better get some employ- ment," It was too late for pleas or promises. Buffalo, a hard-nosed manufacturing and port city on Lake Erie, rocked for the first time to the nights of violence and disorder that have already af- flicted so many other cities this year and for three hot summers before...
...treaty, Eban concluded, would be Israel's best guarantee that its Arab neighbors would cease their "design at politicide-the murder of a state." Such a treaty, he insisted, would also bring enormous benefits to the whole troubled area. Israel, for example, would give Jordan-whose only present port is on the Gulf of Aqaba-an outlet to the Mediterranean. It would promote a joint program of economic and social advancement and a regional communications system that would permit rail and road traffic between Egypt and its Arab brothers from Saudi Arabia to Lebanon...
...three rounds, while Nicklaus was shooting 71-67-72 and trying to get properly acquainted with his borrowed, white-painted putter, center stage belonged to a 23-year-old Texas amateur named Marty Fleckman. The son of a Port Arthur lumber dealer, Fleckman became the first amateur in 34 years to lead the Open after 54 holes when he fired 67-73-69 for a one-stroke margin over Nicklaus, Palmer and Billy Casper. Then out for the last round came the four contenders-and a physiognomist could have picked the winner. Fleckman was visibly nervous; Arnie was intent; Casper...
Some fishermen, like Otis Smith, who operates fleets and processing plants in New Jersey and Delaware, did not think it even worthwhile to join the chase. Others reduced their fleets: J. Howard Smith, Inc., of Port Monmouth, N.J., for example, sold one of its newest boats to an ocean-research firm...