Word: docked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waters of Naples harbor looking for mines. Just over their heads navy patrol boats bumbled to & fro; above them, planes of the Italian air force watchfully circled the sky. On the shore, soldiers in tanks and jeeps patrolled the approaches to the waterfront, and Neapolitan police guarded a dock entirely surrounded by barbed wire...
...American Medical Association gave its distinguished service medal to wiry, twinkle-eyed Dr. George Dock, of Pasadena, Calif. Last week at the Los Angeles County Medical Association Building, 300 physicians closer to home honored the 90-year-old doctor by turning out to attend the tenth annual George Dock lecture...
...Birth. The lecture series was begun ten years ago to honor Dr. Dock as any good physician would like most to be honored-by encouraging interest in his pet subject, medical history. But Historian Dock had never neglected the other four main areas of his profession-practice, writing, research and teaching...
...week's end the French strike situation eased; longshoremen were going back to work. Still, the Communists repeated their boast that French dock workers would not handle military shipments from the U.S. when they arrived. Any obstruction at the ports, the government warned in a radio broadcast, will be met by "the patriotism of the French and the force...
Back in 1812, all the dock workers around Troy, N.Y. knew "Uncle Sam" Wilson. A tall, talkative meat packer with a friendly word for everybody, Uncle Sam was often on hand to see his Government-consigned barrels of pork and beef loaded on boats and sent down the Hudson for the war against the British. When one passenger asked an Irish watchman at the dock what the "U.S." stamped on each barrel meant, the watchman had a ready answer: "It must mean Uncle Sam ... he's feeding the army...