Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...river flow was put at 550 billion gallons a day-the highest in nearly two centuries of record keeping. Governor Milton Shapp's $2.4 million executive mansion was flooded to its first-floor ceiling. Electric power failed; hospitals resorted to emergency generators. With roads, railways and the air port under water, President Nixon chose the only quick way to get there on his inspection tour of the damage: he helicoptered in from Camp David, Md., after a flying survey of flood damage in Maryland, Virginia and other areas in Pennsylvania...
...noon, many people gathered at the Grand Hotel, a pink elephant of a building with a view over the port (impressively clean) and the Royal Palace (depressingly severe). The reason was simple. The U.S. Population Institute served a delicious free lunch there: marinated river salmon with sweet mustard, herring in fresh cream, tiny meat balls, thick slices of rare roast beef. To ask an environmentalist to dine, however, is to ask for trouble. Dr. Samuel Epstein, the Cleveland toxicologist who first warned of the harmful effects of the detergent component nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA), contended that the beef was full...
...Harvard's heavyweights used a Swiss-made Stampfli shell, rigged German-style, with the stroke and bow oars on the port side. By this Spring, almost everybody was using foreign shells with German rigs. Everybody, that is, except Navy coach Carl Ullrich. Ullrich's boys use a standard, American Pocock shell, rigged in the standard fashion, with standard American oars...
...jokes also occur in historical settings. Below decks in a Roman galley, for instance, the slave master addresses the slaves chained to their oars: "Slaves, the good news is that at the next port there will be food and grog for everyone. The bad news is that this afternoon the captain wants to go water skiing...
...limited by customs to one quart of duty-free spirits per person, so it hardly ever makes sense to buy more than that amount of hard liquor. But wines and other low-alcohol drinks are taxed at a much lower rate than, say, Scotch. Thus lovers of good sherry, port or Bordeaux might find it worthwhile to lug more than one bottle back to the U.S. Oddly enough, local libations are not necessarily cheapest at home: Beefeater gin sells for $3.80 a quart at London's Heathrow Airport, but for only $2.50 at Paris' Orly...