Word: docked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tracy plays with proper naivete and the suspicious honesty of a Maine Yankee, is trying the case of Ernst Janning, a once-eminent judge who bowed to the Nazi definition of justice, and three other members of the Hitler judiciary. As the film unfolds these four figures in the dock represent varying levels of recalcitrance. Janning ultimately acknowledges his guilt; but at the other extreme, Emil Hahn continues to belch up protestations of innocence, claiming the Cold War as his vindication...
Eyes closed, slumped in the dock, Chang, 39, listened for almost two hours while the judges took turns reading the opinion. The defendant, they said, was "a master of flattery, inveigled personal advance and promotion by opportunistic guiles, an attitude not worthy of an officer in uniform." Among the specific charges: on the eve of the coup, Chang had ordered two companies of military police outside Seoul to fire on advancing columns of revolutionary troops. He tipped off Premier John Chang to the plot, enabling him to hide out for two days. When informed of the coup by General Park...
...accomplished pianist who plays nothing but Bach. Romagna has mastered 672 Bach compositions, sometimes working three hours over a single measure. He practices anywhere, whenever time permits, often going to heroic lengths: he once got seasick practicing aboard Truman's yacht Williamsburg-which was tied up at the dock...
...million Marina City, which is rising into the sky alongside the Chicago River. Built around two eyecatching, 65-story cylinders, the multipurpose development will have 896 medium-rent apartments, plus a 16-story office building, a 1,700-seat theater, a 1,000-car garage, boat dock, swimming pool, ice rink and even a sculpture garden...
...Saltwater barnacles and marine growth are the bane of boat owners, particularly in the offseason, when the boat is rarely used. "Boatbath," a kind of floating "wet dock," is designed to save the owner the expense of hauling out or the chore of scrubbing the boat bottom using diving gear. Manufactured by Boatbath, Inc. and made of polyvinyl chloride, Boatbath comes in sizes ranging from 24 ft. up to 40 ft., is priced from $150 to $295. The boat is floated into the Boatbath (which, in turn, floats like a huge bathtub, with its edge at the water...