Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will stop raining tomorrow, for the World Series begins and all the writing talent of the College will wish to dock to the opening of the SERVICE NEWS fall competition without getting wet Beer, in addition, should not be drunk in wet weather, for the Med School students claim it brings ulcers. And ulcers keep you from drinking beer...
...small, oak-paneled room of London's Old Bailey, the chief criminal court in England, Joyce strode to the dock, bowed jerkily to the red-robed presiding justice, Sir Frederick Tucker, and sat down in a straight-backed chair. The charge against him was treason: that he had "adhered to the King's enemies" by broadcasting propaganda from Germany. A clerk asked him how he pleaded. The prisoner's reply rang out: "Not guilty...
Wormwood. The prisoner was so pale that his face scar gleamed red, but he showed no other sign of emotion. Leaving the dock, he smiled and waved at his brother Edwin, a British civil servant. Edwin waved back. To bystanders the two gestures looked like Fascist salutes. But when William had been led away, Edwin knelt on the courtroom floor and made the sign of the cross...
...This demob news shook the boys more than anything." Embittered Tommies, watching boatloads of G.I.s heading home each week, took to advertising in their home papers for jobs. The Government was likened to Ethelred the Unready (see cut). Stocky, quick-firing Garry Allighan, Labor M.P. for the blitzed Gravesend dock area, staggered out from under 2,000 demobilization letters a day to cry: "You must solve this-or have revolution. It's serious...
Beyond the Borders. To Buenos Aires from Montevideo flocked some of Argentina's most important political exiles. Cheering crowds met them at the dock; so did police armed with sabers. In the capital, students went out on strike -while their sympathetic teachers resigned or were fired in droves...