Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Socialist Workers Party of Massachusetts will be the last opponent on the crowded week-end docket. Robert E. Kohn '50 and J. Phillip Bahn '49, president of the Council, will journey down to Dock Square in Boston to uphold the possibility of economic security under capitalism in a non-decision talk-fest to the states...
Today Faneuil Hall is still a market--on Saturday evenings Dock Square is a frenzy of buying and selling, pushcarts laden with produce, chatter in half a dozen tongues. And looking down from its perch high above the Tower squats the huge grasshopper weather-vane. Hammered from sheet copper in 1742 by Deacon Shem Drowne, this grasshopper has sat atop Faneuil Hall for 200 years. In the earthquake of 1775 it fell to the street and suffered a broken leg, but was run up again as fast as it could be repaired...
...chasing a grasshopper. The boy took him home for dinner, and later Shem was adopted by the boy's parents. Years later, remembering the grasshopper that had brought about his adoption, He immortalized that insect in the weather-vane which still crowns Faneuil Hall and Dock Square...
Civilization is still the complaining party. And cold war or no, Fascism is still in the dock...
...Japan completed (TIME, Aug. 16), retiring Lieut. General Robert Eichelberger debarked at San Francisco, acknowledged a salute with an expression that suggested thoughts of the somber past (see cut). His wife, with a happy gasp as she spotted a friend on the dock, seemed more concerned with the pleasant present...