Word: docked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instant, Pier Superintendent Ignazio Scibilia yelled an ail-ashore order to his crews, unloading copper from the Srbija. Some 150 husky dockers, used to emergencies, poured from the ship and other parts of the dock. Six loading tractors were swung around with noses pressed against the Srbija's side. Hawsers were slackened, 150 men and six machines pushed, the 10,000-ton ship was forced away from the pier. With just enough space to admit them, three men snaked down into the crevice, hanging on to steel stringers, 18 feet to black water...
...International Refugee Organization has ferried in 14,000 displaced persons. Next week five ships are expected to dock at La Guaira with 1,800 more. Special Venezuelan immigration offices abroad have helped other thousands to cross from Spain, France and Italy...
...From twelve railroad cars they were unloading a deadly cargo: anti-tank and anti-personnel mines for Pakistan's army, 2,000 cases of dynamite for blasting in Afghanistan. It was a tough but familiar job to the dockers. From the cars they moved the cases across the dock to four lighters, stowed them in neat, harmless-looking piles. When the job was done, the cargo would be ferried out to a freighter...
...innards. Unexploded mines were scattered for hundreds of yards, embedded in coal piles and backyards, teetering on roofs. In a still smoking area, littered with dead fish, four bodies were found, but that was all. There was no trace of the 31 men who had been working on the dock. They had been blown to bits...
...amused to read in your excellent article on Dr. George Dock, in the April 24 issue: "Nobody was sure who Tom Parr was." Teetotaling Urologist Elmer Belt, who "went searching through his medical books in the systematic way that Dr. Dock would appreciate," should have known that Dr. Dock undoubtedly was referring to that famous GRAND OLD PARR SCOTCH WHISKY named after "Thomas Parr, born A.D. 1483 and interred at Westminster Abbey A.D. 1635 aged 152 years...