Word: dock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nurnberg's dock smiled more than they had for years. But most of them knew they would not live to see another spring in Germany. Some faced it with bravado--like ex-Fighter Pilot Hermann Goring, who gestured and postured and smiled his dimpled smile. Others tried to ignore it--like Colonel General Alfred Jodl, who, contrary to rules, hid his head at night under the blankets in his cell...Beyond the unhappy realization of having been on the losing side of a war, they could not quite grasp the meaning of the court's quiet, determined fairness...
...Card's 18.3 million accounts were held by convenience users who took advantage of free lifetime memberships and other benefits while paying their bills in full each month. Industrywide, only 36% of cardholders pay off their balances each month. Although AT&T officials say they have no plans to dock card users for paying up, the company is pondering other ways to persuade the holders to take on more debt...
Thus we look away from campus, toward the fall colors of Vermont, the bright lights of New York, the twin town of Providence, R.I. We gaze as Gatsby did to the green light on the end of the dock, but for us, like him, it is inaccessible. It represents a certain freedom that we, as Harvard students, find it difficult to grant ourselves. To do so would mean going against the work ethic that Harvard's Puritan founders successfully instilled in cobblestones of the pavement and the bricks of the buildings--and the more modern ethic of mandatory 60-hour...
...When you're learning to row, you don't fall in. People do go swimming off the dock, and freshmen have been thrown in the water before, but no one's ever been sick...
...cells. The researchers already knew that HIV uses this particular chemokine, variously dubbed CKR-5 or CCR-5, as a gateway into the cell. They knew that CKR-5 does not grant the virus access all by itself. Before it can gain entry, HIV has to dock with another gateway protein called CD-4 at the same time that it attaches to CKR-5. So the scientists decided to look at the genetic profile of a handful of healthy men who have never been infected with HIV despite repeated exposure to the virus...