Word: portes
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...Port. at L.A. Laks...
...said to have called Mahon's harbor the finest in the world. He is also said to have been so captivated by the island that he brought along Lady Emma Hamilton for a few days of relaxation in the colonial-style Golden Farm mansion that still overlooks the port. British influence lives on in a taste for gin drinking ("Lord Nelson" was one of the brands produced on the island) and in the sprinkling of Anglicisms (among them xumeca for shoemaker and tornescru for screwdriver) that add a quaint historical dimension to the Minorcan language...
President Clinton may be a careless man, but he does not deserve all this torture and humiliation, especially from a hypocritical and sinful society. IFEANYI T. OGBONNA Port Harcourt, Nigeria...
Perhaps no form of government," said Lord Bryce, "needs great leaders as much as democracy." For democracy is not self-executing. It takes leadership to bring democracy to life. Great democratic leaders are visionaries. They have an instinct for their nation's future, a course to steer, a port to seek. Through their capacity for persuasion, they win the consent of their people and call forth democracy's inner resources...
...Japan attacks Port Arthur, Russo-Japanese War begins...