Word: docked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Moscow's 40th Anniversary celebration with new orders from his Kremlin bosses: finish off the trials of those who led the 1956 revolt, sentence them heavily, spare no one-priest, worker, soldier or political leader. Last week Kadar was zealously carrying out his orders. Currently in the dock were...
...prisoner's dock in Paris' ancient Palais de Justice last week stood a pale, emotionless young Algerian named Mohammed ben Sadok, on trial for his life. Before the case got to judgment, France learned once again that the political assassin often carries his prosecutor with him before the bar of justice...
...Easter Rising was foredoomed to failure. He actually hoped to prevent it, but it was too late. Foiled and captured, he had only one role left: to die. He did that in style. During his trial. Casement's main preoccupation was the speech he would make from the dock. It came out very well, almost as well as that of Robert Emmet to whom the Irish in America had often compared...
...born in Tropea, Italy (real name: Umberto Anastasio), started his career almost as soon as he jumped ship in New York in 1917 to become a dock-walloper on the Brooklyn piers. In 1921 and 1922 he spent 18 months in the death house at Sing Sing for the murder of another longshoreman named George Turrello. The experience taught him the efficacy of wholesale death; when his lawyer got him a new trial, his pals killed off so many witnesses that Al was released. After that he prospered; the waterfront offered, as it still does, wonderful opportunities in pilferage, shakedowns...
...leftward. A stream of "diplomats" from behind the Iron Curtain have been pouring into Ceylon to offer trade, aid and advice. Little by little Western capital and know-how is being withdrawn, frightened away by increasing talk of nationalization. Unemployment increases steadily (the Trincomalee turnover itself threw 10,000 dock workers out of work...