Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon as the last Scot was across, mines which sappers had placed under the Causeway were touched off. Great chunks of the narrow strip jumped into the night sky. Its 510-foot dock and its rolling lift bridge were blown...
...flight from Corinth, through the Peloponnesus to a little fishing port where a British destroyer finally picked them up, was a nightmare. More than once St. John and his friends were nearly shot as parachutists because of their knapsacks. On the embarkation dock they watched hundreds of trucks being put out of commission. The drivers shot holes in the tires, raced the engines without oil or water so that they would be ruined...
...year, the U.S. Navy had chartered as handsome a yacht as there is in the world. The square-rigged auxiliary barkentine Sea Cloud, in time of peace, supplied Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Davies with the kind of transportation they liked best. Last week, at a Baltimore dock, awed workmen were busy removing the Davies' doodads to prepare the Sea Cloud for service in the Coast Guard...
...Australian troops in Malaya were like Australian troops anywhere. They had little understanding of the strictly English meaning of the word discipline; but neither were they familiar with the meaning of fear. When they arrived at Singapore, they pitched pennies to the dignitaries waiting on the dock. Ashore they shouted, drank, swore, rousted Singapore's residents out of their sleep. When they went into the jungle to train, they groused-but they trained hard and hungered to fight...
...there are potential base sites for joint U.S. -Mexican use: La Paz, offering a good, sheltered bay on the Gulf of California, with Magdalena similarly situated on the Pacific. Potentialities farther south are even more significant: The port of Salina Cruz possesses the only coastal dry dock from San Francisco to Panama, also has a fueling station. The fine harbor at Acapulco has a repair base, Guaymas a repair yard. Manzanillo is another fueling station...