Word: ported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...zero hour came, Johnny, pale and nervous, stood watch while Gavenda bloodied his fingers tearing down the last bricks. At 4 p.m. the head guard signaled that the day's work was over, and the guards descended from the fortress walls. Gavenda crawled out of the recessed gun port, got a firm hold on the outer wall and swung himself down to the ground. The others tumbled after him. The six men made a dash for a railroad embankment, ran under its cover to a bridge across the Vah River. Gavenda almost fell over a woman washing clothes...
...fortress wall. Said Gavenda to his frailer friend Jaroslav Bures. a bookkeeper also convicted for antiCommunism: "Where there is a hole to be filled in, there's a hole to get out." At the first opportunity they explored the tunnel, which proved to be an old gun port, and found the far end jammed with bricks and fresh mortar...
...Province town of Grahamstown, 58 Negroes were jailed for walking in the streets after curfew (11 p.m.). In Pretoria, 20 singing Negroes and one Indian were arrested for marching into the "white" section of the railway station. Eight hundred nonwhites were in jail in East London; 800 more in Port Elizabeth. The nonwhites hoped their defiance would moderate Prime Minister Daniel Malan's "unjust laws" (racial segregation) by i) filling the jails to overflowing, 2) catching the eye of the U.N. The African National Congress and the South African Indian Congress recruited 10,000 "volunteers" ready...
...arresting Moroka and 16 lesser leaders, some of them Communist-liners, Malan's Nationalists plainly hoped to break the back of the disobedience movement. They were disappointed. The day after Moroka's arrest, 96 more smiling Negroes got themselves jailed in Port Elizabeth, another 20 in nearby Uitenhage. So many nonwhites were volunteering as prisoners that some jails refused to take any more...
These nightly forfeits paid by New York theatergoers may partly explain why Broadway has only ten shows currently playing (see below), while London has 37. One expert who sees the point is Howard S. Cullman, inveterate first-nighter, chairman of the New York Port Authority, and one of Broadway's archangels. Last week Playgoer Cullman suggested that New York's City Council change some of its antiquated laws...