Word: portly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SHANGHAI, June 26--Four days before President Clinton fielded questions on a Shanghai radio-talk show during his historic visit to China, Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine left his mark on this port town, the largest city in the world's most populous nation...
...summer's best nonfiction adventure story, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea (Atlantic Monthly; 507 pages; $27.50). As author Gary Kinder relates, in 1857, some years after making his exploration and writing his book, Herndon had charge of a large paddle-wheel steamer bound from the Panamanian port city of Aspinwall, now known as Colon, to New York City. The S.S. Central America carried 500 passengers, many of them returning rich with gold dust and nuggets from the California gold rush that still continued. In addition to these private, unregistered stashes, the ship carried an official consignment...
...most. After more than that, you think you are funnier and more charming than you are. I once sat next to New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan at a formal dinner and watched him consume three double Scotches, five glasses of red wine and three glasses of port, after which he got up and gave the after-dinner speech. The 6-ft. 4-in. Senator swayed above me as if in a high wind and delivered a swoopingly post-Modernist oration that sounded like James Joyce addressing a Rotary luncheon on the planet Mars. His extraterrestrial gibberish nonetheless communicated...
...literary archaeologist, the sinking of the Central America was ideal. Nearly 450 people drowned, but 149 men, women and children were saved, and their accounts of the horror began spreading to the continent's newspapers as soon as rescue ships reached port. Captain Herndon, who went down with his ship, was acclaimed for his heroism, and a memorial was built at Annapolis, Md. As the New York Times wrote afterward, "No story so clear and so appalling has ever before been brought to the firesides of the land...
...MBTA's new Plymouth line takes visitors south to the heart of the Old Colony. Plymouth ($8 round trip), home of the infamous Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims' first permanent settlement in the New World, remains a vintage seaside port...