Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after a few side trips to the pyramids at Giza and the Temple of Amun at Luxor, Eugénie arrived at Port Said on the Aigle. There she was met by the Emperor of Austria, the Crown Prince of Prussia and the Prince of The Netherlands...
That did it. Two hours later, egged on by a wildly cheering crowd, Haiti's Chamber of Deputies met in extraordinary session at Port-au-Prince to "force the chicken hawk of the East to pull in his claws." The Deputies passed laws which 1) authorized $3,000,000 for national defense, 2) revived military service, 3) created a committee to investigate subversive activity by anyone over 16. The crowd yelled itself hoarse when Deputy Philippe Charlier cried: "We'll fight them with machetes and penknives if necessary. No Haitian is afraid of a Dominican even if they...
...bridge is in danger of falling, she thinks, because one of its chief supports, the teacher, is badly undermined. "People think of a teacher as a devoted, cultured spinster who expects nothing in return . . . or some unmarried, retiring don who needs only enough to buy his port. Why, they pay their secretaries more than my top teachers...
...mentioned plunder, spoke only of "confiscation committees." Provincial populations fled in terror before "Mr. Soviet," as the Red army became known. The Reds' first great obstacle was the Yangtze, where Chiang hoped to stop them. A Red detachment in captured Nationalist uniforms managed to take a small river port which permitted the whole army to cross. But the most famous incident on the Long March was the crossing of the Tatu River, where a detachment of Communists swung across hand over hand on the bare iron chains of a half-destroyed suspension bridge, straight into Nationalist machine-gun fire...
...occasion he and three other Stonyhurst boys, barely in their teens, feudally consumed "two turkeys, one very large goose, two chickens, one large ham . . . two large sausages, seven boxes of sardines, one of lobster, a plate full of tarts . . . seven pots of jam . . . five bottles of sherry, five of port, one of claret and two of raspberry . . . We had also two bottles of pickles." Hellfire was the only thing that was ever known to scare little Arthur-and Mother Doyle soon fixed that by offering her son the hearty advice: "Wear flannel next your skin, my dear boy, and never...