Word: docked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early counting of Yarmouth shepherds (ina, mina, tethera, methera) became "Eena, meena, mina, mo"; and Westmorland's hevera,devera,dick (eight, nine and ten) is the most likely origin of "Hickory, dickory, dock." In the 18th Century, "Hot Cross Buns / One a penny / Two a penny" was a street vendor's cry. "Baa, baa, black sheep / Have you any wool?" probably dates back to the export tax imposed on wool in 1275. The "Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie" goes back to the Renaissance, when live birds really were put in pies, ready...
...school and the depth at which it swam). Even more important, in narrow, rock-lined Alaskan channels his underwater signals bounced back from shoals and shore line, allowed him to navigate in dense fog when even craft equipped with radar (which cannot operate under water) stayed at the dock...
...across placid Lake Union, Inventor Ross put on a demonstration of his "underwater radar" that left Navy sonar experts stuttering with excitement. On his cathode-ray screen the observers could easily locate a submerged steel drum 1,200 ft. away, a garbage can at 900 ft., sand bars, dock pilings, fish nets and ropes...
Muddy Pearl. Junks and sloops were anchored offshore. A Japanese trawler arrived from U.S.-occupied Okinawa, carrying oil. Macao's Wharf No. 31, an oil pumping dock, was busy day & night. British, Danish and Panamanian freighters, sometimes pausing to lighten their load at Macao, steamed upstream to Whampoa, the port of Canton, through a muddy Pearl River channel which the busy Red Chinese recently deepened. Freighters on the Pearl last week were laden with steel rails, zinc plate, asphalt, Indonesian rubber, Pakistan cotton, American trucks, steel piping, tubing. To China's Reds, Macao and Whampoa are not ideal...
Last week 66 of the swans sailed straight into a shower of bilge water disgorged by a ship and disgracefully dirtied their majestic plumage. The Vintners' swan master called for immediate action. Men in rowboats crowded the swans against the dock, fished them out one by one and hauled them away in vans to an R.S.P.C.A. clinic at Putney...