Word: ported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every quarter-hour . . . the young and inexperienced imagining that they saw lights and heard breakers, the officers testy and irritable, and the Admiral calmly keeping vigil") or of a convoy in the 1940s ("Around the columns is thrown the screen like a loose-jointed necklace, the beads lunging to port or starboard and then snapping back . . . each destroyer nervous and questing, all eyes topside looking, ears below waterline listening, and radar antennae like cats' whiskers feeling for the enemy"), Sam Morison could write as one who was there...
Britain's Hydraulic Research Board (concerned with rivers, harbors and beaches) has been using radioactive tracers to keep track of the mud of the Thames. At present, the Port of London Authority keeps a fleet of dredges at work on the channel at an annual cost of nearly $2,000,000, and it suspects that a lot of the mud they dredge is washed back up the river by the rising tides. If it could be sure, the Authority figured, it might train the tides of the Thames to carry more...
...same size as the Thames silt. Two drums of the hot stuff were dumped by derrick on the bottom of the Thames. Then scientists armed with Geiger counters traced the movement of the radioactive particles. Some of them were found eleven miles upstream, confirming the worst suspicions of the Port of London Authority...
...board chairman. Brooklyn-born, Lewis Lapham grew up in San Francisco, went East to school (Hotchkiss and Yale '31), worked as a ship news reporter for the San Francisco Examiner before he joined the family firm. During World War II, he was executive assistant to the San Francisco Port of Embarkation. Two years ago Grace Line brought him in as heir apparent...
...Teheran. This ceremonial blow dramatized the Iranian government's outlawing of the Bahai religion in the land where it was born and began the conversion of Bahai national headquarters into a secular building. All over the world, from the lakeside gentility of Chicago to Israel's port city of Haifa, Bahai voices rose in protest...