Word: ported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under leadership of the U.S.'s Lieut. General (ret.) Raymond A. Wheeler, former Panama Canal engineer, some 23 ships of six nations stood in to attack the blockage in three task forces-one clearing smaller wrecks around Port Said, two others working from opposite ends of the canal to join at Ismailia in clearing the cement-laden hulk of the Egyptian LST Akka, by far the toughest single salvage job. The U.N. fleet, said General Wheeler, will be built up to 30 vessels and will operate under a consortium of experienced Dutch and Danish firms. If all goes according...
...Nasser took back Port Said last week, the battered city was permitted a short spasm of celebration. As his troops and tanks moved in, the snipers that the inflammatory Cairo press had played up as second Stalingraders fired their rifles in the air. Then they rushed to pull down the 57-ft. statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps, French-born father of the Suez Canal. With police cordoning the crowd, three successive charges of dynamite toppled the statue in a shower of bronze splinters. Boys fired at the great figure as it fell, then trampled the wreckage, shouting: "Down with Britain...
...from Leeds, read the letter in a taxi en route to a business engagement in London and smiled at his eldest son's restiveness. For the moment the headlines on the news vendor's sign just across the street seemed remote and unimportant. BRITISH OFFICER KIDNAPED IN PORT SAID, they read. It wasn't until after he reached his hotel and got an emergency call from Leeds that Francis Moorhouse learned that his son had found the moment of excitement he sought...
...Sympathy. The anguished father went to call on the M.P. for Leeds, who happens to be Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell. Gaitskell poured him tea and got busy at the War Office. Lieut. Moorhouse, Gaitskell learned, had led his platoon through the back streets of Port Said on a night raid in which nine Egyptian terrorists were rounded up. He had gone back alone to the scene of the arrest next morning in an open Land Rover. The car had been found deserted on a side street. Lieut. Moorhouse was not seen again. That night Commanding General Sir Hugh Stockwell sent...
...three years his mother was dead, and the elder Sullivan had taken to drink. One of Allen's boyhood memories is of himself and his younger brother piloting the old man home after an all-day binge: "We looked like two sardines guiding an unsteady Moby Dick into port." He took an after-school job as runner and stack boy at the Boston Public Library at 60? a night. At a library employees' show, he did a juggling act that wowed his fellow workers. Soon he was haunting the dingy headquarters of a local amateur-night impresario...