Word: dock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fatal Flight. With such facts in mind, Dr. William Dock of the Palo Alto medical clinic lashed out at the tendency to attribute a man's death from heart disease to his work, regardless of other activities. He cited a case history: "An electrician, two years after recovery from [a heart attack] dropped dead at lunch, which had included two bottles of beer. The industrial examiner accepted the claim that death was due to the exertion of walking up a flight of stairs an hour before lunch, and refused to consider that a stomach full of iced beer...
Heart Specialist Dock noted that coughing and contracting the abdominal muscles during bowel movements "impose burdens analogous to those caused by lifting heavy objects . . . Less severe but more sustained circulatory stress is imposed by sexual intercourse . . . Pulse rate is nearly doubled, [the heart's] output per beat is increased nearly 50%, and systolic pressure rises about 30% even in orgasms induced by masturbation, with less emotional or physical stress. This circulatory effect is comparable to that caused by running up two or three flights of stairs, while in intercourse the effect may be two or three times more severe...
...January 1949, an LST flying the red-and-blue ensign of Nationalist China pulled away from the dock at Nanking and headed down the muddy Yangtze, its tank deck crammed with a priceless cargo. Another heavily laden LST had already made its way safely across the East China Sea to Formosa. Later, a freighter was to complete the epic task of saving from Communist hands the art treasures assembled over the centuries, and collected in the Peking Palace Museum and Nanking's Central Museum...
Except for a white carved swan that shields its driver (called its"skipper"), a swan boat is fairly awkward as small-craft go, resembling a barge of floating park benches. There are big brassrails curving over bow and stern used to pull a landing boat to the dock and a jaunty litle American flag out in front. When I approached this peculiar fleet, one of the waiting skippers stood nearby examining the foot-pedal, apparatus...
Yankee Bums. Finally, when a slump hit New York in 1857, the Tribune started cutting back on all foreign coverage. Though kindhearted Editor Dana still gave them hackwork writing jobs. the comrades were convinced that they had been betrayed and exploited: "Diese Yankees sind dock verdammt lausige Kerle [Those Yankees are damned lousy bums]." Marx's last signed dispatch appeared in the Tribune in December...