Word: ported
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. ROBERTA BURKE, 98, first lady of the Navy whose quiet guidance anchored her husband, Admiral Arleigh, and fellow wives in the service; in Fairfax, Va. Burke's 72-year partnership with the admiral, which ended in his death last year, carried her from port to port and, after her husband's appointment as Navy Chief in 1955, to the stately Admiral's House--where she earned a reputation as a gracious hostess and mentor. In her mind, however, she remained, as her epitaph gently insists, "a sailor's wife...
...caviar, prime venison steak with exotic grilled vegetables and a painstakingly hand-crafted brandy snap shell filled with fresh berries and topped with a Grand Marnier sauce. Each course is served with a choice of wines from the college cellar. Afterward, they retire to the Senior Common Room for port and coffee. And this is where our tuition fees are going...
...dress," below, as Diana has called it. Most of the gowns sold for $20,000 to $40,000, shockingly low to some bidders. "I bid on anything less than 20," said Ellen Louise Petho, who dropped $108,100 on four dresses that she intends to auction back home in Port Huron, Mich., for "other causes Di supports." The event made $5.7 million for charity, $1.8 million of it just from catalog sales...
...city formerly known as Canton has been infected by capitalism's mercantile excesses ever since the West forced open its doors as a treaty port in 1842. Today Guangzhou is China's best example of the worst the West has to offer. Its take-no-prisoners style has encouraged official corruption and ruthless business practices. "Corruption is normal," shrugs businessman Wang Shi. "Crime is new." So are beggars in the streets. This is a city that thumbs its nose at the government, holding on to as much of its wealth as it can, ignoring orders it dislikes, following...
What gives his narration its blood and bones, however, is the fine, boozy picture he sketches of the fishermen's bars of Gloucester, Mass., the Andrea Gail's home port. For the younger fishermen the bars are home and family in the short weeks between the monthlong voyages to the Grand Banks. They make good money, $4,000 or $5,000 a trip, and buy a lot of drinks. At the Crow's Nest Inn on the day the sinking was reported, recalls the girlfriend of one of the drowned men, "everybody was drunk 'cause that's what...