Word: port
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...spoke barely a word of the Tahitians' language, understood nothing of their rituals and social structures, never ate yams or fish when he could afford tinned asparagus and claret, and was prone to copy his scenes of native life from tourist photographs purchased in the grubby colonial port of Papeete. The most advertised side of the legend is also false. Gauguin's art was neither freed nor even significantly changed by the South Seas. When he left France in 1891, he was no Sunday painter but a mature artist with a circle of admirers that included Van Gogh...
...shuttering offices, shops and factories and halting trains, planes and even rickshas. Angry mobs carrying bamboo staves, the weapon Mujib prescribes, roared "Joi Bangla!" (Victory to Bengal) through Dacca's seamy streets. At least 25 died in Dacca in clashes with soldiers: another 100 were killed at the port city of Chittagong. Mujib denounced the army shooting as an "unforgivable sin" and warned: "There will be civil war if they do not withdraw...
...million Lash Italia achieved its speed record not by moving at a superfast clip but by swiftly loading and unloading in ports. Most cargo ships spend half their time in port, including considerable waiting for dock space. The new ship can stay offshore, outside the port, while tugs deliver barges to it or pick up barges from it. The Lash Italia has a 500-ton capacity crane that hoists the vessel's 63 lighters (each 61 ft. long) over the stern and stows them in the open holds. Bypassing the crowded docks, the ship stopped at Barcelona for only...
Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science and a leading advocate of controls on the faculty, was enthusiastic about the commission's re-port and said, "I think it's a very just conclusion, in that it reflects the changing nature of American universities, where decisions and responsibilities are being dispersed more equally among students and administrators...
...Corp., it would be built on public land out into the bay as part of a twelve-acre, $140 million project including a hotel and passenger-ship terminal. The tower did not lack enthusiastic backers. Construction workers saw it in terms of new jobs. To longshoremen and San Francisco Port Commission President Cyril Magnin, it would help to revitalize the now declining port. Mayor Joseph Alioto favored the building because it would also swell municipal tax rolls. Yet last week the city's board of supervisors voted the tower down, and Mayor Alioto is unlikely to use his veto...