Word: porting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forthwith, Britain struck back. It instructed British aircraft to shoot down any Israeli planes encountered over Egyptian territory; it dispatched British reinforcements to Transjordan to protect Aquaba, Transjordan's port on the Red Sea and an important link in British communications to Bagdad...
...dipped your plane over Port Churchill...
...generations after that, legions of wandering newsmen made the Golden Gate a port of call. Some big names were among them. Rudyard Kipling, says Author Bruce, was "a bad reporter . . . snagging on his careless pen events and scenes that were never there." White-coated Horace Greeley found the climate the "worst on earth." Nevertheless, he went back to New York and urged young men to go west...
...enemy, New Orleans' aggressive young mayor, deLesseps ("Chep") Morrison. Already holding more power than any other U.S. governor, Earl had asked the voters to approve 41 constitutional amendments which would have vastly extended his control over state spending. One amendment would have given him domination of the port of New Orleans through control of the Dock Board which supervises the port's increasing commerce. Another would have made Louisiana State University a mere political subdivision of the governor's office (as it was under Huey...
Said Crown Prosecutor Arthur McClellan when the boys came to trial: "I think these two unfortunate boys [both lacked normal home life] have been strongly influenced by what they have been reading." Judge Charles Kitchen committed the 13-year-old to the Provincial Industrial School for Boys at Port Coquitlam, B.C.; the younger he turned over to the Child Welfare Superintendent at Vancouver. Said Judge Kitchen: "I agree as to the influence of the literature these boys have been subjected to ... A concerted effort should be made to see that this worse, than rubbish is abolished in some...