Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toying with the idea of negotiating with the rebels, bluntly announced that it had decided instead to crush them by force. The same day, Eritrean guerrillas -armed to the hilt by Libya, Algeria and other militant Arab powers-ambushed and burned seven fuel trucks 30 miles from the Eritrean port of Assab. Two days later, they destroyed an Ethiopian army column, then launched the heaviest assault on the provincial capital in the 13-year history of the revolt...
...virus responsible for the current outbreak is called A/Port Chalmers/1/73 because it was first isolated in 1973 in Port Chalmers, N.Z. From there, the flu has spread slowly. It turned up in Australia and later appeared in South America. By last December, the virus had surfaced in France, where flu soon accounted for 60% to 70% of doctors' house calls in the cities of Lyon, Saint-Etienne, Avignon and Toulouse. Moderate increases in flu cases have been reported in other Western European countries...
After the Revolution the ascension of the working class in Cambridge port and the condesension of the old settlers towards the new split the Harvard Square town meeting house government and placed the City Hall in Central Square--a clear victory for the Cambridgeport squatters. As the Cambridge Book--1966 published by the Cambridge Civic Association notes of the social stratification...
Polite society kept aloof from the Porter and the Pointers, as the residents of Cambridgeport and East Cambridge were called. When a single high school for the entire city was opened in 1840, 74 pupils were admitted, all but one from the Port or the Point, and that was the mayor's daughter...
Last week a harsher reality intruded. Picked up by a torpedo boat, whose commander was one of the hundreds of officers sacked by Papadopoulos, the five were sped to the port of Piraeus. From there they were taken to Korydallos prison and placed behind bars, along with the sixth member of the junta's inner circle, former Brigadier General Dimitrios loannidis. All six await trial on charges of insurrection and high treason. If convicted, they face a maximum penalty of death by firing squad...