Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Traveling in three columns, Syrian tanks moved down to the city's battered port and financial district, bulldozing roadblocks as they rolled. The Syrian troops-the bulwark of what will eventually become a 30,000-man multinational peace-keeping force-also moved swiftly to restore civic order. Two attempted kidnapings were broken up and ten looters stealing the last furnishings from the once luxurious Phoenicia Inter-Continental Hotel were arrested...
...satire in Kind Hearts and Cornets. But the kidding is all in impeccable fun. Alex Guiness, as the seven (or eight) members of the noble D'Ascoyne clan, gets to be knocked off seven (or eight) times by a commoner who has it in for the family. Sipping poisoned port, crashing in a punctured balloon or sinking with his ship, no one has ever kicked the bucket for so many laughs. A fickle Joan Greenwood finally lands the mass assassin in jail for the one murder he never committed. Bouncing back in his jail cell, though, he chipperly narrates...
...Radcliffe tennis team didn't win a single match this weekend against Port Washington, a Long Island racket club of nationally-ranked junior players, but coach Corey Wynn was not discouraged...
Coach Wynn is optimistic about the team's chances against Port Washington when they meet again in the spring. "We'll have had a chance to work on some things," he said...
Voters recommended that the state build an oil refinery and accompanying deep-water port for supertankers...