Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Geronimo! In Port Chester, N.Y., pajama-clad ex-Paratrooper Thomas Thomas bailed out of his second-floor bedroom, landed unhurt on a ledge, explained: "I could swear I heard the sergeant yell 'Jump...
Feminine Touch. In Port Douglas, Australia, a horned, buoy-like object on the beach, attacked energetically by a woman with a hammer, yielded a fine batch of clinging oysters; later, towed offshore by a mine-disposal squad, yielded a detonation that shook every building in town...
Died. E. (for Edward) Phillips Oppenheim, 79, London-born "prince of storytellers," publisher-publicized as history's most prolific writer, who dictated more than 150 intriguing tales of intrigue (sometimes four at once to four stenographers) ; at St.-Peter-Port, on Guernsey. Acrawl with femmes fatales and rifled dispatch cases, "Opp's" novels were only more frequently fraught with fantastics than his life: he made poker legal in England, twice almost broke the bank at Monte Carlo, once captured a German...
...whisked by Russian and Chinese officials through a good-will round of luncheons, receptions, military reviews and charitable visits. For Red Army heroes, Madame brought Chinese decorations and special Chinese candies. At a Red Army banquet, the Russians toasted her and the Generalissimo in Manchurian brandy. She responded with port wine and an earnest, delicately phrased Chinese wish...
During the Japanese occupation, the once prosperous South China port of Swatow (prewar pop. 179,000) was cut off from rice imports, suffered famine. "Coffins were lined up at a certain place by a charitable Buddhist organization, and the people staggered there to lie down in the coffins to await death. In that way, they were sure of some sort of a burial...