Word: ported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everybody fell in with the new line. In Leningrad barrel-chested Marshal Georgy Zhukov (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), in a bottle-green uniform listing to port under a load of gold and silver orders, castigated the ousted Malenkov. Molotov, Kaganovich and Shepilov "antiparty group" for resisting progress. Orated Zhukov: "Its members objected in particular to the slogan: 'Catch up in the next few years to the United States in per capita production of meat, milk and butter,' put forward by the Central Committee on the initiative of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev." Why? Because the anti-party group "had not wanted...
Final Duty. The Japanese army on Leyte has been smashed, and now the survivors are starving and trying to reach the last escape port in small groups. Private Tamura is more expendable than most. He has tuberculosis. His squad leader tells him to go back to the hospital-which has kicked him out after three days-and if he is not readmitted he is to use his last grenade to commit suicide and carry out "your final duty to your country." Taking his final ration of six raw potatoes, Tamura sets off. Aware that the hospital will not take...
...throng of 100,000 came to the port of La Guaira as 47 naval ships and 80 fighting planes passed in review. On following days 8,000 public employees, 20,000 labor-union delegates and 50,000 students dutifully paraded. To wind up a friendly week, the dictators added to each other's formidable collection of medals...
...wanted to sail around the world by himself. Driven by his dream, Boston had built his ship, a 30-ft. auxiliary ketch, with his own hands on the lawn of his home in Swampscott, Mass. Two years ago, he coaxed the Fiddler's Green as far as Port Said before an attack of jaundice sent him home by freighter, his ship lashed ignobly on deck...
...rough. Two days later it got really rough. I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. My engine quit, but I was so sick I couldn't fix it. The loss of food and rest were doing things to me. The jaundice I had at Port Said returned. I got a touch of the malaria that had bothered me during the war. I got delirious-semiconscious, you could even...