Word: porting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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KENNEDY is going to Vietnam and its last port stop in Boston was a very big deal. The Globe covered it very nicely. The front page featured a large photo of the ship gliding smoothly into the harbor, the sun just that soft sparkle off the water and freshly-painted hull: the glory of life at sea! The crew member they interviewed was pictured on the pier with the carrier behind him, he smiled and was quoted as saying, "Looks pretty good...
...others, the younger kids from small upstate and Midwestern towns, and the "lifers," the 30 and 40-year-old professional sailors for whom the Navy means beer and tattoos and the swaggering, adventurous, illusory life of men of the sea-the others continued where they left off last port. Wherever it was they were, whatever it was they...
Before independence, a Trinidadian politician named Eric Williams turned Port of Spain's Woodford Square into a radical forum during the 1950s. This year militants again used the Square as a "people's parliament," but to denounce Williams himself, now the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, as an "Afro-Saxon"-a black man with a white mentality. The government's arrest of 14 militants last April set the stage for a week-long mutiny by half of the island's 750-man defense force; it also led to riots in which four lives were lost...
During their recent Okeana global naval maneuvers, the Soviets used the southern Cuban port of Cienfuegos for servicing and refueling their ships. Three Soviet submarines, one of them nuclear, as well as tenders and guided-missile boats, turned up in the Caribbean...
...physically as big as Texas, California and Montana combined?586,000 sq. mi. Just one of Alaska's scores of blue-green glaciers is the size of Holland; one wildlife preserve could hold Hungary. Alaska's 33,000-mile coastline doubles that of all the coterminous U.S. While Port Walter in the southern panhandle is flooded by 18 feet of annual rainfall, the wind-dried North Slope is an Arctic desert that gets only four inches of precipitation a year. At Fort Yukon in the vast central plateau region, temperatures plummet from 100° in the summer to 75° below zero...