Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Damned? Henry Scobie, the principal character in the story, was deputy police commissioner during wartime in a tiny, fetid port on Africa's west coast. He seemed like a dull, plodding Briton; he was also a serious Catholic. Something happened to his integrity: he betrayed his professional honor, his wife, his best friend, and finally his God. At the end he decided that the only way out was suicide...
When the Millars entered the lower waters of the Mediterranean, Isabel begged: "Steer where the sea looks flattest." Truant's trip around Italy had often been a series of bucking, racing dashes from port to port in rainstorms and gales, with anchorage snatched wherever it offered...
...down the coast, the wounds of the war stood out like massive scars. Civitavecchia (the port for Rome) appeared to have been "eaten and regurgitated by mastodons." Italian squalor was worsened by the morbid excitement it seemed to arouse in visiting foreigners, who, perhaps "a little stifled by ... civilization . . . when they saw a [place] that had been smashed into temporary primitiveness" felt an animal instinct "to leap into it, as though into a bath...
Breadwinner. In Tokyo, Gin Hosaka, an unmarried expectant mother, told the court why she had been stealing: to sup port her lover, his wife and his six children...
...Olympic torch. Runners by day and night were to have borne the fiery symbol the entire length of Greece on its way from Olympia to the opening of the games at London on July 29. Instead, the torch could be carried a mere 20 miles to the nearest port, whence a British destroyer would take it to Bari, Italy, for the long relay through five countries to the English Channel...