Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Odikro of Apedwa, subchief of Akim Abuakwa. disappeared. The Odikro's servant and two pygmy followers also vanished. For nine months Gold Coast authorities quietly investigated. Then they arrested eight natives, charged them with murdering the Odikro. In time the eight stood in the prisoner's dock in Accra's white, sweltering courthouse. They rolled their eyes, cast covertly accusing glances at each other, sweated while witnesses testified...
...dull drizzle at the tanks and bulldozers, the jeeps and howitzers ready for loading on merchant ships, took the cheers of 40,000 workers, then moved on to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where the super-battleships Missouri and Iowa were built, where the battered old Texas rested in dock for repairs. Driving down the bustling streets, past the giant Hammerhead Crane, the President was seen by more than half the yard's 70,000 workers. They cheered...
...wondering at the size or lack of it. Just as he was crossing the bridge along comes a gust of wind-you guessed it. Well, Robbie ran along the river bank for a half a mile, until finally Rityen's white war bonnet sailed glibly in to dock up below the footbridge. Ruffies and flourishes for Charlie...
...WILLIAM DOCK, M.D. Professor of Medicine Long Island College of Medicine Brooklyn...
...Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, then commander of the Pacific Fleet, lives in a suburb of New York, has several times demanded a chance to clear his name before a court martial, is employed by a New York dock-building firm...