Word: porting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Danang, with its airfield, deep-water port facilities and 100,000 population, its U.S. and Vietnamese attack bomb ers, assault helicopters and transports, is a prime target. The three Hawk antiaircraft batteries clustered at Danang since February, with their 36 antiaircraft missiles, add to the target potential of the Danang aviary. From their own strongholds on Monkey Mountain, just west of the base, the Viet Cong are in a good position to clip the claws of those raptors...
...succeeds Coolidge as Senior Fellow, lives in Baltimore, where he serves as chairman of the board of the Peabody Institute of Baltimore and Chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. He was chairman of the Commission on Higher Education in 1946-47, and general counsel for the Maryland Port Authority...
...Special Committee on Colonialism, and in its report last October the committee suggested that Britain and Spain engage in private talks about Gibraltar. Within 24 hours Generalissimo Francisco Franco ordered the blockade begun, calling Gibraltar a den of smugglers. On that point Franco was quite right. As a free port, Gibraltar has long been a haven for such contraband as whisky, cigarettes and radios, which are then often smuggled into Spain...
...Gibraltarians are a hardy and tough-minded race whose blood lines stretch to every Mediterranean port from Genoa and Malta to Athens and Alexandria; many, like Molly Bloom herself, are descended from Spanish mothers and British soldier fathers. Though Spanish is the common tongue and the Gibraltarian palate approves fiery paella and wine, the citizens want no part of Spain's political system or sovereignty. Instead the elected members of the Legislative Council, led by Chief Member Sir Joshua Hassan, want full internal self-government in a free association with Britain. And they want Britain finally to take countermeasures...
East of Calais, Drake closed in for the kill. "I dout it not," he wrote to Lord Charles Howard, his commander in chief, "but ere it be long so to handle the matere with the Duke of Sidonia as he shal wish himselfe at St Mary Port among his orenge trees." Ere long indeed the desperate duke was driven into "the boisterous and uncouth Northren seas," where many of his "battered and crazed ships" were wrecked. "Insomuch that of 134 ships there returned home 53 onely small and great...