Word: ports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British maintained a tight security shutdown, and it was impossible for correspondents to judge the degree of activity at Akrotiri air base. Middle East headquarters of the Royal Air Force, which sits on an arid, dusty plain on the southernmost peninsula of the island. But at the east coast port of Famagusta ten ships were quietly and efficiently unloaded, their cargoes quickly moved out of the dock area. The French, less security-minded than the British, let it be known that a fleet of eight transports, with a capacity of 10,000 troops per trip, had been mobilized in Marseille...
Worldwide superstition long decreed that almost all abnormalities in newborn children-from port-wine stain to the absence of a limb-were the result of shock suffered by the mother during pregnancy. Medical science seemed to demolish these old wives' tales, but now, as a result of exact, deductive reasoning, it is coming to believe that in some few cases, at least, the old wives were right...
...Berlin last week (with the Metropolitan Opera's Martin Rich conducting), it no longer seemed aggressively modern, as it had to Wittgenstein, but more like an old friend. The whole piece is sprayed with crotchety harmonies, but it always makes the kind of leeway towards a safe harmonic port that is part of Prokofiev's charm. The solo part is no virtuoso standout, contains no smashing chords; it is a kind of foreground commentary on the music as it unreels. But Pianist Rapp played it lovingly and expertly. "Right after the war, with so many disabled veterans around...
...with searching dialogue ("You knew the rocket was my job when you married me"), a crisis (the bomb sticks to the ship's hull), an addled scientist (Donald Wolfit), and a final clinch between Reporter Maxwell and craggy-browed Pilot Kieron Moore. After 85 harrowing minutes Satellite makes port, leaving the corn barrier sadly shattered...
...soggy heat and humidity of late summer lay across the U.S. last week as parents bought new shirts and shoes and got ready to send their children back to school. From Key West, Fla. to Port Angeles, Wash, a record-shattering 41,533,000 students began to enroll in the U.S.'s often overcrowded and understaffed schools and colleges-1,754,300 more than last year, and an astonishing one-fourth of the nation's population. "It gets to be more fun each year," said Mrs. Creta McVean, teacher of the first grade of Dallas' James...