Word: port
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hours. There's nothing you can do 300 miles from a coast but button it up and bob like a cork until it blows over. I don't like weather like that, but I don't panic. Things break all over the place, and you have to find a port and get them fixed...
...family hung around South America for two years, working here and there. Finally, in June 1985, they pitched up in Florida, at Port Canaveral, with a dead engine and a new way of looking at things. They had met a lot of people along the way, Janis says, "people who just wanted to travel. They didn't want to work anymore. We started to think, hey, that's not a bad idea. I mean, who wants to work anyway? After all, we were able to travel for nearly three years, until we got here...
Belgian television, quoting the Zeebrugge port authority, said the ferry's cargo doors had not closed properly, letting water into the hold containing cars and trucks...
...Syrian troops, backed by hundreds of tanks and armored personnel carriers, massed in the nearby Chouf Mountains awaiting the order to move into West Beirut. Their mission: to enforce a cease-fire among Syria's feuding clients, one that might extend south all the way to the port city of Sidon. The sudden mobilization promised to become the largest Syrian presence in Beirut since before the 1982 Israeli invasion...
...Erria is now in the Danish port of Korsor, her holds empty and hatches battened. A Danish firm engaged by Hakim to operate the ship has reportedly sued for $200,000. With his Swiss bank accounts frozen, Hakim is unlikely to settle soon. Meanwhile, the Erria is up for sale...