Word: portly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern U-151 and this submarine on a single marauding 114-day voyage hung up a record of 55,000 tons of Allied shipping gesunken. Commander Niemoller was next given the UC-67 with which he stole about outside Marseille, managed to sink so many French ships that the port was ordered temporarily closed. So many Allied sub-chasers were then assigned to get the UC-67? that even Daredevil Niemoller saw the game was up, cleared...
...dangerous. Today it has become almost impossible, an attempt tantamount to suicide. Barbed and electrically charged wire, searchlight-equipped watch towers. 24-hour frontier patrols aided by bloodhounds and police dogs guard every mile of border. Therefore, excitement was great in Latvia last week when Victor Konarski, onetime Soviet port chief at Leningrad, made good his escape to Riga...
...practice the pilot approaches the airport in the normal manner along the regular route beam. Twenty miles out his radio receiver, containing a reed converter, locates the course beam from the transmitter-trailer. About four miles from port at a given altitude it strikes the glide beam, a curved path of constant intensity in a field of radio waves. On the pilot's dashboard is a "cross pointer dial" operated by the reed converter. One needle indicates the course beam, the other the glide beam. Keeping the needles crossed at right angles,* the pilot guides his ship down...
...Mediterranean. There in July 1873, in the fifth month of the first Spanish Republic, a group of revolutionaries hoisted the red flag. Because they could not find a pure red one they used the flag of Turkey, with its crescent stained out in blood. The frigates lying in port joined the revolt. From Madrid the central Republican Government, run by high-minded incompetents, badgered by conspiracies Right & Left, sent troops against the city. Six months later Cartagena fell, before it could get its socialist experiments running or, as one of its leaders proposed, declare its allegiance...
Finally rescue ships found the Regina Maria, towed her back to the great Rumanian port of Constantsa. For hours special trains had been standing with steam up at Constantsa and two Bulgarian ports at which the Crown Prince might conceivably land. As Mihai stepped ashore, deathly pale from seasickness, he ordered food, drink and warm clothing for the crew, then boarded King Carol's own special train, started out for Athens. At Bucharest he stopped to tell King Carol, "Of course I was badly scared...