Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME [Nov. 5] says that Admiral Ernie King sailed into the caucus room port "with all his guns blazing...
Outline of my life. R. C. Benchley, Born Isle of Wight, September 15, 1807. Shipped as cabin boy on Florence J. Marble, 1815. Arrested for bigamy and murder in Port Said, 1817. Released 1820. Wrote "Tale of Two Cities." Married Princess Anastasie of Portugal, 1831. Children: Prince Rupprecht and several little girls. Wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" 1850. Editor "Godey's Ladies Book" 1851-'56. Began Les Miserables 1870 (finished by Victor Hugo). Died 1871. Buried in Westminster Abbey...
Much of his time on sea duty he has spent "picking up the sort of information that seldom gets into the formal reports." Collecting this data has taken him, aside from the hot spots already mentioned, to "headquarters such as Guadalcanal, Port Moresby, Milne Bay, and Brisbane," and he has witnessed the invasions of Morocco and Saipan...
General Tu reported that the Russians had "guaranteed" a safe landing in Manchuria-but not at Dairen and Port Arthur. The port of entry was Yingkow, a minor harbor with rail connections to the interior. The Russians gave due warning that, elsewhere in southern Manchuria, presumably at Hulutao and Antung, Chinese Reds might not be so agreeable...
Other Central Government troops, preceded in the North China port of Chin-wangtao by U.S. marines, met strong Communist resistance when they tried to march beyond the Great Wall into Manchuria. The Government troops skirmished fell back and waited for reinforcements...