Word: porting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shakedown. In San Francisco, the Call-Bulletin reported the minor distress of a luxury liner, said it "put back into port with 791 passengers for repairs...
...witchcraft has just filled the room left by a tall African named Selbourne Mvusi, who was billed as a "Zulu artist." Of genuine Zulu origin, Mvusi produces sombre, impressionistic oils and mournful woodcuts. He is studying art education at Penn State, at the suggestion of Professor Gordon All-port, who also invited him to Dunster House...
There were 35 on board the Bradley as she steamed out of Gary, Ind. on Lake Michigan after unloading 12,000 tons of limestone. The Bradley was heading north on choppy seas, bound for home port, the little (pop. 4,000) town of Rogers City. Mich., on Lake Huron's western shore. The crewmen had an edge of eagerness, they were anxious to make Rogers City: 26 of them lived there...
Early Life. Born with the name of Herbert Frahm, on Dec. 18, 1913, the son of an unskilled laborer in the German Baltic port of Lübeck. At 17 joined the Socialist Party, fought against Nazis in street brawls. In 1933 fled on a fishing smack to Norway (where he had distant relatives), one leap ahead of Hitler's Gestapo...
...Jinx. Joylessness begins at home for Alfred Eaton in the turn-of-the-century Pennsylvania town of Port Johnson. Alfred's brother is the apple of Papa Samuel Eaton's eye, and poor Alfred is the apple core. When the brother dies at 14, Alfred is cut off without a pennyworth of love by the steelmaster millionaire father. With old-fashioned pre-Freudian directness. Author O'Hara allows this rebuff to clue the pattern of Alfred Eaton's life. From then on, he is destined to confer his love rather than give it, to make contact...