Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adopted two little girls. He rises at 6:30 every morning, has a roll and coffee and attends Mass, then goes to his office, where his first chore is to arrange the flowers on his desk. He works until 1 p.m. With a light lunch he has port, usually diluted, and never more than three-quarters of a glass. After lunch he rests and takes an hour's walk, sometimes with his adopted daughters, sometimes alone and unguarded on Lisbon's streets. At 4 he returns to his office and works till 7:30. All important decisions...
...nine days the S.S. Akbel had followed its secret, zigzag route. To reach port, the battered little steamer had to duck patrolling British warships, steer clear of British radar stations ashore, elude R.A.F. planes on 24-hour alert. Last week the Akbel made harbor in Haifa, Palestine. Among 1,100 "illegal" Jews who stepped onto the Promised Land, all but one were refugees...
...Retreat. Whatever his formulas, Jimmy Byrnes was sticking to one objective: peace treaties must be made with the former Axis satellites this summer. But first the Trieste issue had to be settled. The Italian port on the Adriatic was a symbol of the struggle between Western democracy and Soviet imperialism. If Tito succeeded in taking Trieste from the Western-backed Italian republic, Russia's prestige would rise mightily...
...snob. By campaign's end he had made some 450 speeches before luncheon clubs, Catholic societies, the Camelia Lodge of Sons of Italy. He ate spaghetti with Italians, drank tea with Chinese, sipped sirupy coffee with Syrians. He stuck to local topics: restoration of Boston's port, encouragement of New England industries, aid for veterans...
...Lady Astor finally sailed back to England as she had come, happily firing from port and starboard. In the U.S., said the teetotaling viscountess, she had found too much sex in advertising, too much talk about disease on the radio, and too much liquor in the young folks. "Nevertheless," she reported, "I've had a wonderful time...