Word: port
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ship that has suffered an accident at sea, it is sometimes said, in the vocabulary of marine gallantry, that she came into port "under her own power." In any given season, a surprising number of crippled shows, often musicals, limp into Manhattan listing badly. For them, Broadway is not a safe haven, but a bone yard...
...Israel has been careful not to hit Port Said or Alexandria, where Russians and Russian ships are concentrated. Will you be just as careful about Russians at the missile sites...
...massive conduits for the flow of men and supplies from North Viet Nam to the southern battlegrounds. There is, of course, the spidery Ho Chi Minh Trail, threading into South Viet Nam from more than half a dozen points in Laos and Cambodia. There is also the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville, through which, according to some estimates, the Communists get fully 80% of their supplies for the war in the lower half of South Viet Nam. Much of the matériel is brought in aboard Chinese and Soviet freighters and moved north over first-class roads (including one built...
...into the harbor, several boats brimming with teenagers floated by us waving bouquets of flowers and singing and shouting at the top of their voices. On dry land, the welcome was overwhelming. Our buses became the main exhibits in a human parade through the small town next to the port. Old people in rocking chairs waving vigorously from their porches and everyone else lining the streets - applauding, chanting "Venceremos, Venceromos" over and over again, and singing revolutionary songs; some girls jumped on our buses and give us bags of candy, and all along the route to our hotel every Cuban...
What went wrong? On the chance that the Eurydice might have collided with one of the four cargo vessels in the vicinity, the navy ordered all four into port for inspection. No evidence of a collision was found. Lending some credence to the theory that the Daphné-class subs might contain a hidden structural fault was the fact that the Eurydice had recently undergone inspection and was found to be in perfect shape. To the French, the question was more than a matter of national pride. The French navy still has nine Daphné subs in service. In addition...