Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...backed the fallen junta and then did not do more last year to prevent the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, withdrew permission for the fleet to use the harbor of Elefsis, 17 miles west of Athens. Set up only three years ago on a lease basis, Elefsis was a home port abroad for the six ships and 1,700 crewmen of Destroyer Squadron 12, as well as for 1,100 dependents who lived ashore. According to the terms of a joint U.S.-Greek statement, Elefsis will be closed and the families out by September; the American airbase at Hellinikon Airport...
Representatives of the Cambridge port Homeowners and Lenants Association (CHTA) and other local groups told the council that small homeowners are forced to shoulder an unfair proportion of the property tax burden, while Harvard and MIT remain tax-exempt...
Most U.S. immigration requirements were waived for the emergency. Vietnamese passengers carried a certificate addressed to the immigration officer at the U.S. port of entry: "The below-listed alien dependents have been granted parole status by the Attorney General for entry into the United States without immigrant visa...
...well as the West with the capability and reach of Soviet forces. One fallout from the first Okean exercise, for instance, was the decision to upgrade the Soviet carrier forces. Their third and most sophisticated carrier, the 35,000-ton Kiev, is now outfitting in the Black Sea port of Nikolayev and will undergo sea trials this summer...
Holder, 44, attributes his multiplicity of interests to his father, a "salesman with brains" in Port-of-Spain who believed that "if you put the tools in front of the baby, the baby will walk up to the tools." Among the tools his father provided were a piano and a paintbrush, both of which were first taken up by Holder's older brother Boscoe. "From the beginning, I was high on Chopin and turpentine," says Geoffrey. He has studied none of his arts formally. Creativity, he explains, is mostly a matter of environment and exigency: "At Carnival, for example...