Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hospitality, Witnesses turned to their own affairs. More than 2,500 of them, togged out in bathing suits, playsuits, pajamas or long underwear, waded hip deep into Lake Erie to be immersed backwards in its waters. (Baptizers, chilled by the four-hour ceremony, swigged from a bottle of port wine...
...foggy darkness, 700 miles west of Land's End, two U.S. merchant ships collided. The American Farmer, with a 35-foot hole in her port side, soon had her forward holds full of water and her fore-decks awash. The William J. Riddle took aboard the Farmer's 57 passengers and crew, transferred them to another U.S. ship, and then made shore at Barry, Wales, with her own bow stove in at the waterline...
...masons cut through walls in search of the original foundations, and 23 stonecarvers-using Renaissance techniques-worked seven years to restore the first friezes and façades. The war was no interruption: they worked right through the occupation, and when Hitler's rocket bombs were blanketing the port they used bricks from blasted buildings to make the restored parts look less new. No bomb ever...
Died. Mrs. Ethelreda Lewis, sixtyish, onetime physical-culturist who dreamed of writing a big-seller and did it by chronicling in Trader Horn the fabulous and maybe apocryphal ivory-trading, gorilla-hunting adventures of chance-visitor Alfred Aloysius Smith; of a heart ailment; in Port Alfred, Cape Province, South Africa...
...into port, the Shoals are calling...