Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most spectacular U.S. engineering project of the war is Cam Ranh Bay, a 15-mile-long, five-mile-wide deep-water harbor 190 miles north of Saigon. Seven months ago it was a pristine, sun-blanched wasteland; today it is a frenetic modern port that rivals Charleston's in size. There, last week, building supplies, ammunition and barrels of fuel were stacked endlessly on the beaches near rows of new ware houses and barracks. On a flattened hilltop, antiaircraft Hawk missiles stood at the ready. Nearby, giant C-130 cargo planes and F-4 Phantom jet fighters returning from...
...blizzard's main force hit central New York, the East's traditional "snow belt." Syracuse measured 53 in. of snow, Rochester 28.4. Oswego (pop. 23,000), a port city on Lake Ontario, was hit with 101.5 in. Huge, 30-ft. drifts blocked Oswego's main streets. In Syracuse, 40 office girls were trapped for more than two days in Mohawk Airlines offices. In Rochester, a nuptial dinner lasted for three days when wedding guests were snowed in at Temple Beth...
From the beginning, everything seems unreal. We meet the most important characters on a small freighter bound for Port-au-Prince from New York. But instead of escaping into fantasy, we are immersed in one of those old movies about a group of wildly disparate travelers locked together in a tight situation. For the people are plausible only as creations of a novelist at the end of his rope, searching for something to add zest to his book. A 1948 Presidential candidate on the Vegetarian ticket and his stiff-upper-lipped wife; a mysterious adventurer, escaping from Philadelphia; a Negro...
...though Foreign Minister Etsusaburo Shiina had found no hint of one in a week-long visit to Moscow. Besides, Tokyo has built up a thriving trade with Hanoi and fears that renewed U.S. bombing might force its ships to steer clear of Haiphong, North Viet Nam's major port. Though the British bravely agreed to support the President, they would clearly have preferred that he prolong the pause until after Prime Minister Harold Wilson's visit to Moscow this month...
...States. Smith, a 1948 U.S. presidential candidate who polled 10,000 votes on the vegetarian ticket, dreams of converting the Haitians to a diet of Yeastrol and Nuttoline. Jones drifts in and out of focus as an ambiguous, flat-footed soldier of fortune so encircled by his enemies that Port au Prince is his last remaining port of call...