Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years the world would remember-perhaps with honor, perhaps with shame -the final scene. The empty dock with its bare wooden benches had looked vast and strange. An almost intimate solemnity, unbroken even by the mundane presence of photographers, had pervaded the packed courtroom. The brittle silence had given way to the firm, clear voice of Lord Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence (pronouncing eleven times: ". . . death by hanging") and to the noise of a paneled door, eleven times closing behind a condemned man. The occasion had lifted the eleven men from past bravado and past cowardice alike...
...some rocks and was unable to come any closer. She began to heavy. To unload these men, women and children by small boats would take too much time. The ship was in danger of capsizing and it was late. A scheme was hit upon. Ropes were thrown from the dock and secured on shore. Members of the shore party went into the water and ranged themselves along the ropes. Then, by means of this human life line, some two hundred souls were relayed, arm to arm, from the sea to the land. These were men of the Hagansh, the Jowish...
...last week the Marine Lynx waited at a San Francisco dock to take aboard her cargo: 408 missionaries, including wives & children, bound for China and the Philippines to pick up where most of them left off five years ago. For those who had forgotten that Americans were pioneers, their faces were a reminder. Now those faces were set toward a frontier of Christendom. Seldom had travelers been so impatient to get under way. But Harry Lundeberg, boss of the strike-ridden Embarcadero, would make no exceptions. "We can't give 'em any relief," said...
...affidavits, 3,000 original documents, and the oral testimony of 200 witnesses, the Nürnberg war crimes trial drew to an end. The courtroom was almost gay. French Associate Judge Robert Falco drew funny pictures which he passed from the bench down to his wife. In the dock, Builder Albert Speer was playing a game: he drew sketch after sketch of a new house for Banker Hjalmar Schacht (who rejected each version because the bathrooms were in the wrong place...
...hour, lean, pale Admiral André Marquis and grim Admiral Jean Marie Abrial had been waiting in the dock. The public that jammed the somber, oak-paneled Salle des Congrés at Versailles-where the High Court has been trying Vichy officials-had been buzzing with impatience. Since 2 p.m. the Court had been ready to proceed with Admirals Marquis and Abrial, accused of conspiring to keep the French Navy out of Allied hands in 1942.* But eleven of the 24 deputies on the jury panel had not appeared...