Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ship of many nicknames. In 14 days of continuous air attack at Malta she was pierced with some 2,000 bomb fragments; her admiring crew promptly dubbed her "H.M.S. Pepperpot." After the worst holes were plugged with planks, they added another: "H.M.S. Porcupine." While she was alongside a Malta dock, bomb hits on shore threw so much debris around her decks that for a time she became "H.M.S. Rockgarden...
...Allies held Salerno, but they also had on their hands the King and Marshal Badoglio. The Italian fleet came over. Militarily the Allies gained some advantage by having Italian troops help out as dock workers, as railway and bridge guards. But the Allied command miscalculated when it expected the Italian armies -beaten, demoralized and wanting only to go home to their families-to be useful as combat troops. They, like the people of Italy, wanted only peace and food...
...Muir technique ignores Henry Kaiser and other bigwigs. Instead, she runs such shipyard society notes as a swap offer found on the wall of a dock men's room: "One wedding ring (unused) for a pair of boxing gloves." It was Jean Muir who discovered the swarming Braukmiller family-15 members working in the yards and averaging $996 a week (TIME, July 26). A national contest of welderettes was partly her doing...
Eleven men sat in the prisoners' dock in a narrow Algiers courtroom. They were servants of Vichy-the officers and guards of a concentration camp in North Africa, now indicted and on trial for murder and torture. A. P. Correspondent Relman Morin described them as they looked in the Gaullist courtroom...
...young officer, at times almost handsome. His expression comes alive with a kind of haunted fury. His black eyes widen. His neck stretches. His head begins to twitch in spasmodic jerks. He looks like a hunted animal. It is a spasm. As it passes, he leans back against the dock and only the wariness in his eyes remains...