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Word: ported (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NAACP is appealing a lawsuit it lost last September when a Mississippi court judge awarded $1.25 million to white merchants in Port Gibson, Miss. The shop owners had sued the NAACP for damages resulting from a 1966 boycott that protested discrimination against blacks...

Author: By David Wexler, | Title: Group Raises Money for NAACP Suit | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

Really locally the 1369 Jazz Club features the Cambridge-port Jazz Ensemble this weekend. A great place...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: JAZZ | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

Some countries are trying novel approaches to meet their water needs. Saudi Arabia has contracted with a French firm to study the feasibility of towing an iceberg from Antarctica to a Red Sea port, where it could be melted for its fresh water. Elsewhere, more conventional methods are being used to increase the supply of usable water. Among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Warning: Water Shortages Ahead | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

...went underground in the cities while a small faction, led by the then little-known Mao Tse-tung, began a long effort to establish revolutionary bases in remote areas of the Chinese countryside. Meanwhile Chiang Ch'ing, a floundering actress, apprentice playwright and intellectually restless, went to the port city of Tsingtao and made contact with Communist Party members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Comrade Chiang Ch'ing Tells Her Story | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

...worth of stolen goods and fined $100; two years later, again in Medford, police seized Bailey with $700 worth of hot merchandise. This time he was fined $200 and given two years' probation. Then in 1973 Bailey was arrested while filching 31 record albums from a store in Port Huron, Mich. Convicted of larceny and sentenced to up to four years. Bailey posted bond pending an appeal, which had to be made within 60 days. Legal maneuvers dragged on, and Bailey went home to Rhode Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Bill Bailey's Rhode Island Blues | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

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