Word: docked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while, public outrage mounts. In the north coast town of Puerto Plata last week, news spread that two former Trujillo secret police agents were about to flee to Haiti aboard a Dominican freighter. Before long an angry crowd had gathered at the dock, hurling stones at the ship, screaming for the pair to be handed over. An army unit arrived, took the men from the ship to the local garrison. The mob followed, still protesting, and the soldiers reacted in familiar Dominican fashion-a burst of machine-gun fire killed one man and wounded three. Next day, in the city...
...Gloss, who has become the historian of the Cornhill, has vanced several proposals for the of the most important in the area. The most ambitions suggested, proposes the removal of main structures to the Fanuell in Dock Square which would constituted an historic reservation to that of Williamsburg, Virgin...
However sensible the necessity of protecting the privacy even of the man in the dock, the British system has its drawbacks. For one, witnesses already under hire by some newspaper face an irresistible impulse to embroider the truth for the sake of tomorrow's headlines. And Britain's checkbook journalism has inspired in the heart of many a felon the conviction that crime does pay. Said Stuart Campbell, editor of the People (circ. 5,450,727): "It's getting to the point that when you ask anyone the color of his hat, he says, 'Six quid...
...Dock keiner kanns so gut wie Papa Liszt...
...Syrub Singh, the Indian, and his new white wife Charlotte, who had taken the Hindu faith, stood proudly in the dock last week in Durban's regional court. The prosecutor sought to prove that the Singhs' marriage did not exist since South Africa's Mixed Marriages Act rendered it automatically invalid. Thus, he argued, the "unmarried" couple, by living together, had violated the Immorality Act. The defense attorney retorted that the Singhs were indeed legally married since South Africa's legislation could hardly apply in Southern Rhodesia, where the wedding took place. As they awaited...