Word: ported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accident. "I've been in the right place at the right time, and that's the story of my life," says he, although he has also been in some wrong places. Born in Canada, son of a low commission cooky-and-tobacco salesman, he grew up in Port Huron, Mich., got his U.S. citizenship after he joined the Army fresh out of high school in 1943. In the assault upon Metz, Private First Class Swainson volunteered for a night patrol, set off in a Jeep. It ran over a land mine. Of the five men in the Jeep...
...each other. Jaanimets had been trusted to work outside Estonia only because he was just nine when the Russians occupied his country and was then considered free from contamination by the pre-Soviet regime. For three years he waited patiently for Baltika to put in at a U.S. port...
...supplant it eventually by three communications satellites spaced around the earth on once-per-day orbits 22.000 miles up. At this altitude each will stay fixed above its own part of the rotating earth. Anyone wanting to send the King James Version-or any message of similar length -from Port Said to Las Vegas or Tokyo will always be able to find satellites to do the job in 14 minutes...
Fast-moving Brazil has since built a bridge across the upper Parana, the border river, at the great Iguagu Falls, thus giving Paraguay its first direct highway route to the Atlantic. It has financed highways inside Paraguay and has given Stroessner free port facilities on the ocean.' Brazil's army has trained some of Stroessner's army officers, supplied him with castoff arms and 14 trainers converted to fighter planes that are permitted to fly from Brazilian bases if there is revolution in Paraguay. In turn, Brazilians got from Paraguay a bank branch, a 10-million-acre...
...Many grown Haitians there have never seen a white man. Afro-Haitian (voodoo) gods sometimes command their worshipers to remove strangers, like Barker, posthaste from the premises. But mustachioed Paul Barker, a former merchant seaman, chemist and Baptist minister, somehow managed to get along. On the northern seacoast near Port Paix, a local landowner and amateur ethnologist-who is also a voodoo potentate-helped Barker excavate the townsite where the gold pendants were found. Tense moments came when it was reported that the god Dambala had ordered Barker's expulsion. But the local voodoo expert sent off messages...