Word: porting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston's Beacon Hill and rolled out volume after imposing volume. Before his mission was accomplished, Morison retired from both Harvard and (as a rear admiral) from the Navy. But only last year, at 72, he published John Paul Jones and thus sailed another Pulitzer prizewinning biography into port...
Security & Substance. The possibility of enthusiastic inhospitality to Khrushchev brought real problems. Longshoremen promised that they would not unload Baltika, threatened to hire boats to follow the Russian liner into port with heckles cracking the air. The U.N. security section fattened its number from 200 to 300, banned-all but official visitors from the premises during the General Assembly sessions. The U.S. military and State Department moved intelligence and security details into Manhattan...
...roomful of children, and repulsed the sort of lowlife lady (Nadia Gray) that fictional characters are always repulsing. In no time at all, however, he meets the sort of highlife chick (Peggy Cummins) that fictional characters are always marrying; and at film's end, sure enough, he makes port...
...designed and badly built. Crews were made up largely of pressed men, recruited by a system of legalized kidnaping. They were fed swill unfit for swine, and discipline was inhumanly savage by today's standards. But long years of keeping the sea, often for 18 months without making port, made them magnificent seamen. Something else, which Pope finds hard to define, made them patriots. And Admiral...
...Pathet Lao rebels. Instead, he moved east to a nearby Laotian army camp, where he won over an armored squadron with the fiery plea: "This fratricidal fighting among Laotians must cease!" Rolling back to Vientiane before dawn, Kongle's 3,000 men swiftly captured the capital, its air port, two generals and a few minor bureaucrats at a cost of only six casualties...