Word: dock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sitting out there on the dock at 5:30 p. m. yesterday, I realized that it was dark. I remembered what it had been like the first time we had to cox in the dark; if we had been piling up shells in the daylight, how the hell were we to avoid it in the darkness? But there were no serious mishaps, maybe because we'd already had our accident-one freshmen crew had broadsided another. Last year's accident featured a freshman cox who decided to combat the offdock wind by heading in perpendicular to the dock and taking...
These were the thoughts that crossed my mind as I sat there contemplating the river, and inevitably, life. I reached no conclusions, and then three varsity pairs arrived. Jim Ehrman got out and went down on one knee on the dock. "Oh, my back," he muttered. "That was a bitch," Fritz Hobbs agreed. Hobbs graduated a year ago, but he still comes down to row at Newell. They felt that it had been the fall's toughest workout-a popular opinion at the end of a practice. It was so familiar...
However, a species classification yesterday by experts ruined the possibility of a lovable "sea monster" legend being passed down to future generations and at the same time deflated the value of thousands of "Cecil blubber" souvenirs taken from the creature Sunday at its dry-dock home on a Scituate beach...
...Trials will only be fair when people like Mitchell, Wilson, Nixon, and Agnew are in the dock instead of Bobby and Erika...
...Yemen shortly after the Suez War, I heard a black dock porter reciting an epic poem to a group who lounged in the cafe smoking the hubble-bubble pipe and chewing qat (a mildly narcotic green leaf). Normally, he would have chanted verses about heroes of the past. On this occasion his epic hero was a man named Nasser, who stood on the beaches of Port Said and picked up the British tanks and the French planes and hurled them back into the sea. For him, for other black and brown and yellow men, and wherever the cry "Allahu akbar...