Word: porting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reports that the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean had invoked a "radio silence" on its movements -- a possible sign of action to come. As of Sunday night, there were further reports of military activity around Cyprus and of the departure of a U.S. naval vessel from the Israeli port of Haifa...
...about water. He was afraid of water-carried diseases." Mengele told Berkowitz that he never swam in rivers or lakes. In Brazil, meanwhile, a dentist said that she had treated a man just like Mengele two months after the alleged drowning. At the same time, the coroner in the port city of Santos claimed that the dead man he examined in 1979 after the drowning at Bertioga was in his early 50s and could not therefore have been Mengele, who would have been 67 at the time...
...Hughes also knows the craft firsthand. He began his professional life in his native Sydney, Australia, as a painter. It was the sale of his works that financed his early efforts at art criticism. In 1964 he moved to Port'Ercole, Italy, where, he says, "a permanent fixation on Italian painting from the birth of Masaccio to the death of the younger Tiepolo took over." The experience proved fatal to Hughes' artistic career. He renounced painting because, he says, "having been to Arezzo to see the Piero della Francesca frescoes of the Legend of the True Cross, I realized that...
...marine engineer, he grew up in the port city of Liverpool. This may account for the many portholes, railings, air funnels and other nautical paraphernalia on his buildings. A passion for high technology dominated his first well-known works: the Leicester University Engineering Building in 1959 and the Cambridge University History Faculty Building in 1964. Both ignited controversy. Both look like acrobatic feats of steel and glass that resemble constructivist factories, highlighting mechanical gadgets like window- cleaning gantries...
...Indian meteorologists had alerted the Bangladesh government in Dhaka that a killer storm was sweeping toward the country's myriad offshore islets and southern flatlands along the Bay of Bengal. Danger Signals Nos. 4 and 5, warning of winds racing above 50 m.p.h., had been hoisted in the port of Chittagong, and fishermen and other sailors had been urged to stay close to the shore. Hourly warnings were broadcast on state-run radio and television, advising residents in the imperiled areas to seek shelter instantly. But most of the impoverished squatters who crowd the islets are too poor...