Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This time, Miss Avery forgot about being a waitress. Her story was published in the N. Y. Evening Porno-Graphic. She was an adventuress, she said, and had without any persuasion from seamen clambered on the Sands from the port of New Orleans, because she was "crazy for adventure." She was in New York to testify to the innocence of the Sands' crew; she said the other four girl stowaways who were found on navy vessels had probably, like herself, been led only by their own inclination to such extravagant behavior...
...left-hander who was hurling for the winners was a clever pitcher, even without the extra advantage of tossing them over from the port side, and his offerings were too much for the Crimson batters. In nine innings, he allowed them only six hits and struck out nine men in the course of the game...
General Currie sued for $50,000 libel damages when a prominent news organ, the Port Hope Guide, charged last June that on the day the World War Armistice was signed (Nov. 11, 1918) there was "deliberate and useless waste of human life at [the capture of] Mons [by Canadian troops] for the glorification of the Canadian Headquarters Staff." This and supplemental statements were generally taken to mean that even after General Currie had knowledge of the signing of the Armistice he ordered Canadian troops into an action during which several were killed on Armistice...
Through choppy Mediterranean seas dashed the British battleships Warspite and Valiant, last week, steaming full speed ahead from the Empire naval base at Malta toward the Egyptian ports of Alexandria and Port Said. Beside the ponderous battleships, paced three swift cruisers, keen Empire dogs of war. Smoke belched. Spume flew. Meanwhile a good old fashioned ultimatum was being cabled by the potent Government of His Britannic Majesty to the puny Egyptian Cabinet of puppet King Fuad...
...action" thus cryptically threatened was understood to be the blockading by battleships Warspite and Valiant of the customs offices at Alexandria and Port Said, from which the Egyptian Government derives a major portion of its revenue. Faced with such a threat-to-pocket, Prime Minister Nahass Pasha yielded inevitably, but sought to save the face of Egypt by promising merely that action upon the Public Assemblies Bill would be "postponed." To this equivocal capitulation His Britannic Majesty's Government sternly replied that they "would again be obliged to intervene ... if ... the Public Assemblies Bill were to be revived...