Word: ports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Port Washington...
Leverett earned show money, finishing about a length of open water behind the winner. The Bunnies got off to a bad start when their port side locked oars in a loving embrace with Dunster's starboard...
Behind the Mortars. The Jews' most dazzling military prize of the week was Haifa, the only port where seagoing ships can dock. As British troops prepared last week to withdraw from all of the city except the dock area, Jewish soldiers began to filter into the town. Others gathered on the slopes of Mount Carmel. One morning at i a.m. they struck. Behind a creeping mortar barrage, the Jews moved into the Arab quarters of the city. Bewildered Arabs gathered for one brief counterattack, then collapsed in leaderless confusion. Within a day, the Jews had taken Haifa...
...safety even before the attack started. As the panicky evacuation began during the Jewish assault, the remaining thousands gathered what few belongings they could carry. Lashed on by the mortar barrage, more than a thousand men, women & children hammered at the No. 3 gate of the British-controlled port area to seek safety. Royal Marine guards finally let them on to the docks...
...Port of Beaumont had sailed from the U.S. 15 months ago, with 19 men and two women, under the command of ex-Navy Commander Finn Ronne (rhymes with bonnie). The expedition had had probably the most ambitious scientific agenda of any that ever ventured into Antarctica: data for the U.S. Government, the American Antarctic Association, the American Geographical Society, colleges and foundations...