Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then amid platters of duck, sweet and sour carp, braised pork, dumplings, cabbage and mushrooms, beer and port wine, the mood softens. Toasts are offered with fiery 140-proof mao-tai, and the conversation turns to the philosophy of war and military strategy. How has Chinese nuclear strategy changed in the last three years? Keng does not reply. The nonresponse may confirm that there has been a fierce debate and struggle between those in the military who would push to produce a modern technical army with nuclear weapons and those who would follow the wisdom of Chairman Mao and retain...
...Jordanian farmers have had to dump crops because they were barred from their usual markets in those countries. Shipment of phosphate, Jordan's principal export, was barred by Syria. As a result, Turkey now buys phosphate from Israel. Imported goods are brought in through Jordan's single port of Aqaba. Because the Suez Canal is blocked and ships must go around Africa, prices of imports have risen...
...boycott is showing some cracks. Iraq once again permits Alia overflights and recently backed down and allowed Jordan Valley tomatoes into Baghdad, because the price of local products had gone skyhigh. Syria last week announced that Jordanian phosphate trucks could once again use Syrian roads en route to the port of Beirut...
...Playwright George S. Kaufman announced that she had "put the heart before the course." Dorothy Parker confessed that in her own poetry she was always "chasing Rimbauds." Alexander Woollcott knew of "a cat hospital where they charged $4 a weak purr." Heywood Broun, drinking a bootleg liquor, sighed, "Any port in a storm." "The groans that greet such puns," claims Milton Berle (who once joked that he had cut off his nose to spite his race), "are usually en vious. The other person wishes he had said...
...half-caste child of East and West, Shanghai was built mainly by 19th century European merchants. It has become-in perhaps too many ways-China's New York. It is the nation's largest city (10 million people) and the busiest port in the Communist world, with China's most extensive industry and, consequently, its thickest smog. It also has one of China's largest slums. The hunger and diseases that used to snuff out the lives of thousands of infants annually during the 1930s have gone. But so have the sin and the aura...