Word: docked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mounted the speaker's rostrum in Djakarta's smoke-filled House of Parliament last week, goateed Ali Sastroamidjojo looked more like a prisoner entering the dock than a Prime Minister about to make a policy statement. For once, appearances were not deceptive. Between his failure to put an end to military revolts in Sumatra and the recent withdrawal of the powerful Moslem Masjumi Party from his Cabinet, Premier Ali was indeed a man on trial...
...London's Royal Albert Dock a drawn and ailing man, with his wife at his side, boarded the 16,000-ton cargo liner Rangitata. Sir Anthony Eden and his wife Clarissa were New Zealand-bound. Earlier Eden had postponed an official trip there; upon his resignation, the New Zealand government warmly renewed the invitation on a personal basis. "Godspeed to you all," said Eden to assembled well-wishers as his ship sailed...
...Mortem Post-Mortem. "Easing the passing of a dying person is not all that wicked," the doctor, according to police, had said at his arrest. "She wanted to die." But in making his case against the owlish physician, who sat quietly in dock making notes for his own lawyer on a pad, Prosecutor Melford Stevenson got permission from the presiding magistrate "to deal with the deaths of two other patients of Dr. Adams who died in circumstances which the Crown says exhibit similarity to the death of Mrs. Morrell." These two were wealthy Alfred John Hul-lett...
...feet. She was given breathing exercises to build up her respiration, massages and tiny electric shocks to relax her limbs. She listened to nursery tunes for hours each day, gradually learned to keep time with her fingers and to twirl her hands to the rhythm of Hickory, Dickory, Dock. As her ability to coordinate her body movements increased, she began to pronounce her first words. After that came years of phonetic drill and tongue exercises, but by the time she was eleven, she was able to enroll in a special class in the regular public-school system...
...when a minor comedian named Gene Baylos successively plugged a vodka, a brand of rainboots and a bourbon on a five-minute, five-a-week local show called Punch Line last week, NBC's Manhattan station WRCA clamped down, announced that it would dock Baylos' $1,000 salary by $675-the price of three ten-second advertising spots. "It was a flagrant violation of policy," explained NBC. "We hope to teach him a lesson." Cried Baylos: "It was only a joke. Why do they pick on a broke little guy like me and never bother the big boys...