Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trial's last day, Lipinski in the prisoner's dock had a visit from his son, with whom he chatted calmly until court convened. Then he stood to hear his sentence: death...
Harry Bridges' left-handed grip on Hawaii's sugar, pineapple and dock workers (TIME, Dec. 22) had never seemed tighter. He seemed coolly confident and was flexing his muscles for another wage fight with the planters and shippers next February. A vice president of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, one J. R. Robertson, had gone out from San Francisco to stir up the shock troops and build up a $200,000 "war chest" (one day's pay a month from each of the I.L.W.U.'s 35,000 members...
Whatever he said after that was usually bad news for the prisoner in the dock. His words carried weight: he held degrees from Oxford and St. Mary's Hospital, London, was the author of The Medical Investigation of Crimes of Violence, a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, lecturer on such subjects as morbid anatomy and forensic medicine at London's University College Hospital and St. Bartholomew...
Under the plan, as outlined by Weld, the wheat and butter saved during tomorrow's temporary rationing will be picked up early next week and taken to a dock warehouse...
...Lipsett brothers had a deal with the Navy to moor the New Mex at its Newark dock while they cut her up. But as the battleship approached, the city of Newark declared a blockade...