Word: ported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tito's demands alternated between the extravagant and the trivial. He demanded corridors to the sea, large chunks of Italian-held territory, extraterritorial rights to and inside the port of Trieste. He fought over an acre here, a playground there, a rock quarry, a beach. But slowly his demands were beaten down to a strip of land one mile long and 400 yards wide running through the village of Lazaretto. The Italians, who stayed out of the London talks but were kept closely informed, entered some objections. Then Tito shifted some more...
...Port Washington. N.Y., members of the Royal Norwegian Yacht Club found the kind of dusty going they are used to at home, sailed their International one-design yachts through heavy weather that dismasted an American boat, and beat out the Manhasset Bay Yacht Club for the Skoal Trophy...
...ships. Congress has appropriated $12 million for an emergency repair program to modernize 54 mothballed ships from the reserve fleet, has appropriated another $11 million for a "Liberty Conversion Plan" to experiment with ways of modernizing the entire fleet of 1,500 wartime Liberty ships laid up in port...
...Reds, Dides had been found in possession of top-secret minutes of the national defense committee. Dides' explanation was that in the government's interest, he got this paper from an informant in the Communist ranks. But the government decided that Dides' job as a port inspector did not qualify him to "collect, retain and diffuse" military information. He was grilled for 24 hours, released, fired from his post...
...scene that may make moviegoers wonder if Actor O'Brien, who also helped to direct the picture, meant to outrage their better instincts or tickle their worse ones. In any case, Shield for Murder is memorable only for the work of Emile Meyer, an actor of such massive port and seemingly minute intelligence that his performance may be recognized as the definitive Hollywood attempt to characterize the eternal flatfoot. His best line: "Nayun years ay pre-sink capting. An' dis is duh firs' time I ben pullt inta duh drain...