Word: porting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seen face to face, it was not that kind of war at all. "In normal times." cabled TIME Correspondent Frank White last week, "the Egyptian General Hospital at Port Said can take care of 40 patients in each of its eight wards. Last Wednesday night when I visited the hospital it had no light, no water, no food and no medical supplies. According to the chief surgeon, Dr. Ezzeldine Hoseny. more than 500 Egyptians had died in his hospital during the two days of fighting in Port Said. At one point corpses were piled nearly as high...
...transports lumbered off the ground at Cyprus in the purple-streaked dawn, and two and a half hours later dropped the paratroopers over the northern mouth of the Suez Canal. The Britons aimed at Port Said, the French for Port Fuad, across the canal's mouth. From the first instant of combat, it became apparent that the Anglo-French could not hope for a quick victory without bloodshed. The Egyptians had littered the drop areas with barbed wire and oil drums, were ready with a desperate and (one of the invaders reported) "bloody good" reception committee...
...considerable among British and French as well as Egyptians. Back in Cyprus, beaming, well-starched Invasion Chief Sir Charles Keightley admitted that the Egyptian army was still "a cohesive force," but he was ready with Step Two in his "limited operation." The invasion fleets had already steamed out for Port Said from Cyprus...
Tuesday at dawn, 24 hours after the airborne troops hit the silk, a force of 30,000 British commandos and French commando units, with tanks, stormed ashore and into Port Said and Port Fuad...
...tank-led assault troops moved briskly through the suburbs, and by afternoon claimed capture of both Port Said and Port Fuad. Soon a column was moving southward along the Canal Zone to occupy Ismailia, hoping to be in possession of as much as possible of the 20-mile-wide Canal Zone before the ceasefire ordered for Tuesday at midnight...