Word: ported
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...cannot believe that the John F. Kennedy doodle you pictured [Nov. 20] is genuine. As a lifelong neighbor of J.F.K.'s at Hyannis Port, I can guarantee that he would never have drawn a harbor like that. Any fool who lives by the sea knows that sail boats head into the wind at all times and never go ring-around-a-rosy at their moorings...
...modern naval history. The sights and the sounds of the homecoming were mostly friendly, with helium-filled OPERATION WELCOME balloons lifting off the pier and mothers of crewmen's children born since the ship sailed waving from a special stand. But as the giant vessel came to port, two black crewmen, framed against the disk of the radar screen, lifted their fists in the black power salute...
...strike ended and the dissidents were taken to port. On the docks there they demonstrated once again, and the ship sailed leaving the protestors for military justice. And officers began to grumble about the new permissiveness ushered...
...image and thereby its chances of getting aid from the U.S. Before news of the firing was broadcast, Jean-Claude guaranteed his former éminence grise safety if he remained in Haiti. But Cambronne, long accustomed to breaking such promises himself, took refuge instead in the Colombian embassy at Port-au-Prince. He was expected to fly later to Colombia, and then perhaps...
...into its cylinder (1). At exactly the same moment, the other end of the piston is pushing the air that it has already captured and compressed into a passage at the opposite side of the engine casing. As the rotor turns, the air is forced through a transfer port into the cylinder of the power piston (2). Continuing its rotation, the power piston compresses the air even more (3). As the piston's cylinder moves past the fuel injector, the compressed air is mixed with a spray of gasoline (4). Then, as the cylinder edges by the spark plug...