Word: ported
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...reaches a raft and decides, Crusoe-like, "to make an inventory of my belongings." These include a wristwatch, some keys, three business cards from a store in Mobile and no food or water. He guesses that he is some 50 miles from his home port and will be rescued in two or three hours, but still worries, "It seemed an extraordinarily long time to be alone at sea." Ten days later, having swallowed seawater and a few pickings of raw fish, he lands with a cargo of extraordinary impressions...
...listened to cassette tapes on earphones. After arriving in Athens, she spent seven hours in the transit lounge, leaving on a Middle East Airlines flight for Beirut shortly after the crippled TWA 727, on its return from Rome, made its emergency landing in Athens. On Friday, in the Lebanese port city of Tripoli, a woman who identified herself as Mansur strongly denied that she had had any role in "such a terrorist crime...
...Pentagon officially declined comment on the position of the Navy ships. But officials who requested anonymity said the carrier Coral Sea--its orders to return home canceled--had departed port in Malaga, Spain, early yesterday...
Instead of departing Malaga, however, the Coral Sea was unexpectedly ordered to remain in port and at least temporarily to scrap its plans for a return home...
...carrier America, meantime, left the port of Livorno, Italy, as scheduled yesterday. But that ship has been told to remain under way at sea instead of heading toward a second port call in France, the sources said...