Word: porting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basis of this study, the Iranian government hopes to persuade private enterprise to help finance port installations, mining of coal and chrome, and agricultural projects. "A very conservative guess" of the sum involved for the planning: up to $100 million...
...Unlikely Event . . ." For the U.S. builders of the submarines, not the question, but the sudden public interest in it, was new. Should a submarine be hit at top speed by another ship, the result might indeed be disaster. But in port, the experts argued, no ship would be traveling fast enough to penetrate the heavy shielding built around the reactor. "However," said Admiral Rickover, "in the unlikely event that a collision would be so severe and so precisely located as to penetrate the submarine's hull and its reactor system, the reactor is so located in the ship that...
Without waiting for the reassurance, thousands of Norwegians turned out in Bergen (pop. 115,000) as the Skate made its first port after the North Pole...
...true to nature as it was thousands of years ago?" Mr. Justice Douglas asked the group, and those who had not been convinced at the outset admitted that they had been converted to "the wilderness concept." Not until the end did the opposition show up: Larry Venable, a Port Angeles freight-service company executive, greeted the hikers with signs that Said, SUPER HIGHWAYS FOR 47 STATES BUT PRIMITIVE AREAS FOR us, and, less subjectively, BIRD WATCHER GO HOME. Douglas tipped back his battered hat, hitched up his shapeless pants, said: "Sorry you couldn't be with...
Early during World War II, one of the most remarkable writers ever to emigrate to the U.S. arrived in New York from France. Vladimir Nabokov was a stateless Russian. Unlike Oscar Wilde, who earlier at the same port said he had nothing to declare but his genius, Nabokov declared a set of boxing gloves. Two customs inspectors each donned a pair, sparred a friendly round and chalked everything O.K. But it was Nabokov who really won that round, for he smuggled into the country a greater and more scandalous talent than Wilde...