Word: ported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long (1915-34) Marine occupation, stayed on when the troops went home, as director of the country's only insane asylum, took up the study of voodoo, became a houngan (priest) and internationally famed explicator of the jungle rites; of a heart attack; at his wattled hut near Port-au-Prince...
...past; his heart is in its poor remnants, and he frankly calls himself "a case of arrested development." He was raised comfortably in London, great-grandson of a Dutch-descended Englishman who grew rich on inventions such as the tantalus, a contrivance to keep Victorian housemaids out of the port. Betjeman went to Oxford's Magdalen College, where he detested his tutor (Author C. S. Lewis), failed to get a degree because he forgot to take "divvers" (divinity...
...waving white flags of surrender. But in the Rif, warriors in brown and grey djellabahs, armed with old German Mausers and French muskets, swept down from the hills, cut the muddy coastal road leading to the city of Tetuán, surrounded a royal army barracks near the port of Alhucemas and seized an airport near...
Stop the Movie. Sailing away on New Year's morning, after ten days of such treatment in Indonesia, Tito might have been looking ahead to more of the same at the next port of call. But Burma unexpectedly asked him to delay his arrival two days, until its national independence celebration was over. On his last visit to Burma in 1955, when his neutralist friend U Nu was Premier, crowds thronged the streets of Rangoon beneath banners that proclaimed "Long Life to Great Tito!" When he arrived in Rangoon last week, after seven days at sea, the atmosphere...
...site of the Royal Navy's main base in the Mediterranean. Unable to satisfy the voracious demands of the island's unpredictable, Oxford-educated former Prime Minister Dom Mintoff (who last year wanted to incorporate Malta into Britain itself, but now talks about making it a neutral port guaranteed by the U.N. Security Council), and unwilling to grant independence to the rock-bound island that must import nine times as much as it exports, the British suspended the 1947 constitution that allowed the 320,000 Maltese to elect their own representatives. Henceforth the British Governor will appoint...