Word: dock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dickensian London. The characters are dregs of the town, led by an enterpriser named Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum, who has managed to organize beggary and make it pay, and one Macheath, thief and trollopmonger. ("Sloppy Sadie was discovered/ With a knife-wound up her thigh/ And Macheath strolls down on Dock Street/ Looking dreamy...
...much Eccles' rude word as the Conservatives' record of providing better living and lower taxes that won by-elections for them last week in the port town of Harwich and in the dock and milling city of Hull in Yorkshire. In both they polled a higher percentage of the total vote than at the 1951 election. In Hull the gain was a solid 3.65%. In 27 by-elections since the general election in 1951 that returned them to power, the Tories have held all their own seats (15) and won one hitherto-safe Labor seat-the first time...
...yellow pennant on the conning tower fluttered gaily. The diminutive Rickover had to strain to get a look, when the Nautilus splashed into the icy Thames and floated away in flotsam from the launching cradle. As four tugs fumed up and nudged her toward a fitting-out dock, the Nautilus rode high in the water (her reactor and other heavy parts have not yet been installed). As she disappeared out of sight of the stands, the sun suddenly disappeared with her and the fog closed in again on Groton...
...clock one afternoon last week, amid the marble columns and bronze grillwork of a onetime bank, the 108 members of the Central Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party gathered to arraign one of their distinguished members on charges of heresy. Tito himself was in charge. The man in the dock: Comrade Djilas...
...growth was the work of two men with strikingly different personalities. Maxwell Mayhew Upson. now 77 and board chairman, joined the still-wobbly firm in 1907 as secretary and general manager, soon had it on its feet. In 1911, searching for a man to take charge of a tough dock-construction job. he hired an engineering prodigy, who. at 24, had supervised the building of four railroad tunnels under the Hudson River. That was the beginning of a prosperous partnership between Upson and William Vincent McMenimen, who, at 72, is vice-chairman of the board. Each man contributed special gifts...