Word: portes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their appeal heard, registered, the Sheriffs observed their immemorial custom of presenting each doorkeeper of the House with a bottle of port wine...
...port, Dewey Kile: "I came off at 8 o'clock. At 8:30 I went to my bunk. At 10:30 I was awakened by a crash. Some of the cork from the lining of the inside of the submarine hit me in the face...
...bloodshot eyes staring into the water. Dejectedly he said, "We've done everything we can. Two months of it and we're tired!" He gave orders to capture the two capricious, runaway pontoons, to flood the ones floating,-it was an impossibility to tow the submarine to port with her stern resting on the bottom. Smashing seas imperiled the small boats and crashed together the four pontoons, rendering the re-submergence extremely hazardous. The first man to volunteer for the job of opening the valves was an engineer and before orders could be outlined to him in detail...
...play in which a young girl married to a cripple and needing sexual relief ran off with a lusty sailor. (Port o' London...
...victorious Wafd parliamentarians assembled next day at a luncheon where spirits ran low. All were acutely conscious that the battleship Resolution was steaming toward Port Said from the British naval base at Malta. All knew that British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain had just cabled in especially imperious vein* to the impotent Egyptian government. When Zaghlul Pasha rose, all emotion, the Wafd beheld how Pyrrhic was its victory...