Word: docked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Criminal Kiss. Within 24 hours more than 1,000 dock workers held a mass protest meeting outside the gates of the Royal Albert Dock, delegates from every Ford plant petitioned Home Secretary R. A. ("Rab") Butler, and the Bishop of Southwark denounced Magistrate Rose's sentence as "savage and inhuman." Unfortunately, the Widow Christos' case was not the only one. British newspapers were still quivering over the case of a young engaged couple who were haled into court for committing "an act of lewd, obscene and disgusting nature such as to cause offense to diverse of Her Majesty...
Planning a big midnight vice raid last week on the dock area, Brooklyn's District Attorney Edward S. Silver called in the press for an advance briefing, with the understanding that the story would be held until the roundup began. But United Press International, which did not staff Silver's briefing, was told about the raid by a "responsible police official." who set the release date at 10 p.m. Out on the U.P.I, wire in time for 10 o'clock radio newscasts clacked word of Silver's sortie, a full two hours before the cops were...
Within minutes after the news was broadcast, the prostitutes, pimps, pickpockets and pot peddlers who were to be the raid's targets started clearing out of the area. When the police arrived at midnight, the dock country was as quiet as a park after a Sunday-school picnic. Rummaging through one hotel, cops found a sailor bedded down with a woman, but she claimed she was a bride, and had a marriage license to prove it. Desperate for dirt, the raiders were reduced to little more than issuing a summons for an uncovered garbage...
...Suit yourself," said Clint and let them pass onto the dock. Many little children, many massive guardians, were also on the dock, as well as several attendants in sailor hats and T-shirts...
...Some men enter the Navy through the hawse hole, as enlisted men, but I entered through the cabin window," he related. He set sail first on the Guinevere, a converted yacht on anti-submarine duty off the Atlantic coast; his influence first showed when he persuaded the captain to dock at Maine's Matinicus Island, where the entire crew was feted with a lavish lobster dinner. The historian who had earlier retraced Columbus' path to the New World was off on another, more dangerous mission, applying his philosophy of writing history once more, a philosophy that told him to relive...