Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chased into Port Everglades, Fla. by a British cruiser soon after the outbreak of the war. For 15 months the Arauca had sported a swastika, but a small one. One day last week, when President Roosevelt's special train had pulled into the siding at the Port Everglades dock, the little swastika was replaced by a huge...
...week long the R. A. F. answered this new fury with fury, by hitting out at U-boat bases and airfields along the French and Lowlands coast. In a two-hour raid on Brest they caught an Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser repairing in dock. But though concentrating on submarine bases, the R. A. F. showed that it was still taking the long view. It was officially stated that the Short Stirling bomber, for which the British claim the best speed-range-load performance yet, was in service. It was unofficially guessed that the plane which flew to Cracow, Poland...
Across Portugal and northwestern Spain blew a violent hurricane. In Lisbon's harbor it smashed ships, fishing vessels and a British flying boat, sank a Portuguese warship. Near Zumaya it blew a train off a trestle. In the harbor of Santander an oil tanker exploded, pitched against a dock; fire spread from the dock to the city. Fanned by the wind, the flames cut a swath across Santander, destroyed the custom house, the Bank of Spain in the heart of the city, the 13th Century Gothic cathedral and hundreds of houses. Before the fire...
...Star Liner Georgic) in Liverpool, Miss Lutyens stored the statue with her other baggage in a basement. Meanwhile Liverpool, too, had an air raid. When she returned for the baby, she had to dig it out from under a heap of bomb-strewn rubble. She trundled it to the dock in a commandeered sausage truck. She was really quite worried that something would happen to the baby. But nothing...
...rainy night last week in Manhattan, Emil Nizich, 26, dock worker and small-time racketeer, was on his way to a gym for a game of basketball. He was shot three times from behind, left dead in the gutter. The killer made his getaway. An hour and a half later, a few blocks away, young Joseph Moran was checking the unloading of a ten-ton truck. A stranger stepped in out of the rain. "Who's Joe Moran around here?" he asked. "That's me," said Moran cheerfully. The stranger shot three times, killed Moran...