Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of its sprawling unloveliness, Karachi is a bustling port (third biggest in India) and a center of the leather trade. The population swelled to almost 600,000 in recent years...
...such mortal arithmetic. Yesterday's hopes and anger were forgotten in today's new fears. Forgotten was the United Nations' inquiry commission. And forgotten, for the moment, were the 4,500 Jews defiantly refusing to leave their ship, Exodus, 1947, in France's sweltering Port-de-Bouc...
...foot waves; at dawn there were thick, swirling mists so that his escorts in motor boats sometimes lost sight of him. Fifteen hours and 25 minutes after he had left Donaghadee, Tom Blower plodded up the beach in a misty little cove five miles from the Scottish village of Port Patrick. He looked back over his shoulder and said: "You bastard, I've conquered...
Last week, Monrovia was flag-decked and floodlit as it embarked, with prayer and fireworks, on three weeks of fortissimo festivities. The era of the mammy-chair formally drew to a close; the U.S. made Liberia a birthday gift of a brand-new, $18,000,000 port (a miracle financed by Lend-Lease funds...
...July 4- was no night for Sunday seamen. The schooner Morning Star radioed to shore: "Heavy swells with cross-chop." Radiomen on other boats were more explicit: all hands were sick and wished they were dead. The yawl Emerald's crew let their stomachs guide them-back to port. Patolita lost her mainsail. One boat had hopefully taken along a dry-land chef. Near Catalina Island he was feeling poorly; he put to sea in a life preserver, was picked up and taken ashore in a guide boat...