Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME Correspondent Craig Thompson, looking and listening throughout the trial, wrote this account: The prisoners' dock was a picket-fence pen knocked together out of boards salvaged from packing cases. It contained four rows of seats, four to a row. Around the dock there was a plethora of blue-and-red-capped, uniformed guards of the NKVD. Between the dock and the audience stood two guards, immobile with rifles grounded, leather cartridge cases on their belts, unbuttoned bayonets glinting like polished silver under the batteries of Klieg lights...
...reported one such drama: Into the courtroom of Rome's old uni versity, where students once faced examiners, strode Peter Koch (an assistant to Rome's chief of police Pietro Caruso), handcuffed but smiling. He took his place behind the wooden rail of the prisoner's dock. His tall figure with its small, cruel head was momentarily silhouetted against the light as the carabinieri removed his handcuffs. Koch let his gaze wander with an air of unconcerned, conscious superiority over the crowd. The characteristic twist on the left side of his mouth seemed to mock the spectators...
...only a handful of brass hats, newsmen and stevedores. The Army banned the public from the pier. In the bustle of disembarkation the soldiers missed more meals: one large group went foodless for 15 hours. The Army refused to let Canadian Legion and Red Cross canteen trucks on the dock...
...very simple. Abraham Fishgold, 28, got back his job as a welder after being honorably discharged from the Army. But later, men had to be laid off at Brooklyn's Sullivan Dry Dock & Repair Corp. And Fishgold was one of them, because his seniority- including time in the service-was less than that of old hands...
...quick survey of newly liberated ports facing the North Sea indicated that supplies from the outside world might soon be unloaded. Hamburg's port was a shambles, with the hulks of more than 50 large ships sunk in the harbor. But damage to the docks was not so great as expected, and British minesweepers were busy clearing the channel. At Bremerhaven and Wesermünde it was believed that 20 Liberty ships could soon be docked. Eight ships could dock at Bremen...