Word: dock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Langley it was unanimously agreed that the PN9 No. 1 and its crew were lost. "That made me angry," said he. Commander Rodgers fashioned a sail out of a piece of wing-fabric. "He kidded us that he'd sail right up to the dock...
...perforce the passengers went to Southampton. Their friends bidding them goodby, said: "We'll stop here until lunch time-in case you come ashore again." And the passengers called back to their friends threading their way through the strikers on the dock...
...eleven o'clock A bell rang. The hawsers were cast off. The great vessel began to tremble with the churning of her screws. Gradually she backed away from the dock and drew put into the Solent. Suddenly a little tug, the Southampton Roadster, left the shore and pushed toward the liner. The tug's deck was crowded with roughly clad men. Were the strikers actually going to attack the leviathan? As the tug came alongside, a line was thrown to her. At last the passengers understood. The bootlegged crew, who had been hidden all night, clambered...
...From the dock where the disgruntled strikers stood, a wail went up. There were shaking of fists and baffled execrations...
Home again, he began at once on his first objective-to obtain U. S. recognition for Turkey. At the dock, he greeted reporters with a compactly-worded statement, as it were, announcing his text to Secretary of State Kellogg, Foreign Relations Chairman Borah and the rest of the U. S. Senate...