Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must take issue with the statement of Barbara Childs in her letter to the editor [Dec. 11]. declaring that President Kennedy's Hyannis Port sketch could not be genuine because anchored boats never head in different directions...
Boats on moorings, sailboats included, do not always lie head to wind, especially if there is a strong tidal current running with a light wind blowing. It is more the rule than the exception in my home port of York Harbor, Me., for the sailboats moored in the tide to lie head to tide and those in the eddy to lie head to eddy regardless of wind direction. And all boats reverse with the ebb and flow of the tides, appearing to play ring-around-a-rosy. This is especially noticeable in a small harbor where the tide tends...
...cannot believe that the John F. Kennedy doodle you pictured [Nov. 20] is genuine. As a lifelong neighbor of J.F.K.'s at Hyannis Port, I can guarantee that he would never have drawn a harbor like that. Any fool who lives by the sea knows that sail boats head into the wind at all times and never go ring-around-a-rosy at their moorings...
...modern naval history. The sights and the sounds of the homecoming were mostly friendly, with helium-filled OPERATION WELCOME balloons lifting off the pier and mothers of crewmen's children born since the ship sailed waving from a special stand. But as the giant vessel came to port, two black crewmen, framed against the disk of the radar screen, lifted their fists in the black power salute...
...strike ended and the dissidents were taken to port. On the docks there they demonstrated once again, and the ship sailed leaving the protestors for military justice. And officers began to grumble about the new permissiveness ushered...