Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Europe, meanwhile, the nine national leaders of the European Community staged a dress rehearsal summit of their own in the ancient port of Bremen, a favorite city of their host and current chairman, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. After two days of sometimes chummy, sometimes quarrelsome discussions in the tapestry-lined rooms of Bremen's gabled, 15th century city hall, the Club of Nine produced a three-point package that leaders of the four big European states will offer in Bonn...
...colonial victory-with trucks, walkie-talkies and Port-O-Sans Under a scorching sun, long lines of blue-coated colonial troops and fringe-shirted riflemen advanced shoulder to shoulder through the fields of New Jersey to attack the forces of King George III. Skirmishers darted ahead to draw the redcoats' fire, then rejoined the ranks...
With participants willingly spending their own money to relive the past -British uniforms alone cost up to $600 -New Jersey's American Revolution Bicentennial Celebration Commission ended up spending only $25,000 on the battle, far less than expected. The agency provided 75 Port-O-Sans for the crowd, a convenience not available in the 18th century, and the New Jersey National Guard served free meals from its field kitchens. Thus the commission set a timely and unusual example for governmental units in the 20th century rebellion against high government spending. Because the agency used up only...
...ascendancy of the fanatic Marxist Ismail, who has boasted of defeating all "enemies of the revolution" with his People's Militia, strengthens Moscow's hand in the Arab world's only avowedly Marxist state. Aden has replaced the Somali port of Berbera as the chief Russian naval base in the area. Soviet air force planes use the former British airstrips at Ras Karma and Muri. Large underground arms depots have been constructed to store weapons that can be rushed to pro-Communist movements in black Africa...
...each night through the city's venerable fish market. The author is also a shrewd observer of the turf, from the garish 1,000-year-old Canebière, the broad boulevard known to generations of English-speaking sailors as the "Can o' Beer," to the Old Port and Notre Dame de la Garde, "the Old Gold Lady up on the hill." Fisher is at her wisest and most amusing as an observer of the Marseillais, those dark, stocky descendants of every Mediterranean race. Their women are among the most fascinating in the world, with their harsh, deep...