Word: docked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spectacular. The Kremlin laid down a steady propaganda barrage designed to stir up anger and suspicion toward the U.S. among the Russian people (see FOREIGN NEWS). Said a Soviet radio broadcast: "Not only Powers, the immediate executor of the aggressive actions of the U.S. Government, will be in the dock, but his masters in Washington as well." Once the Russians get full propaganda use of him. Powers himself might get off with a light sentence. "Mr. Khrushchev," said Oliver Powers, "cabled me, promising to help me in this matter, and I am taking him at his word...
Still the assault boats streamed toward shore. Kilted commandos, festooned with assorted demolition charges, fanned out across the bulky concrete submarine pens. A refitted American destroyer-the old four-stacker Buchanan-crammed with explosive until it was a vast time bomb, rammed the main gate of Normandie dock, only Atlantic dry dock capable of handling the great German battleship Tirpitz. Of the 611-man assault team, only 442 survived. But St. Nazaire was shattered by blasts that went off at unexpected intervals for the next 2½ days. Normandie dock could not be repaired for the next ten years...
When it came to the serious job of news gathering, Allen was all business. He was usually the first to arrive for work and the last to leave. At 4:30 one morning in 1949, patrolling an emergency meeting of the territorial legislature, gearing to cover an impending dock strike. Editor Allen took pity on the sole surviving staffer and chauffeured him home. "Now, don't come in till 6:30," he said indulgently-then drove briskly back to work...
More than a score of Wall Street brokers at Lehman Bros, began commuting by sea, some arriving at work in rumpled, spray-wet marine gear. They changed into business suits at the office. Dock hands at Manhattan's 23rd Street pier dusted off an old rule, hustled to collect a $1.50 "landing charge" for every passenger. So far only one weekday sailor, new to sea commuting, has fallen into the East River. An occasional commuter was heard to grumble: "Maybe they'll find out the Long Island Railroad isn't necessary, and it'll just disappear...
Somehow suspenseful, although the outcome was obviously known from the start, the opening hour showed how the two anarchists were almost accidentally arrested for a robbery and murder, how the case against them grew from the teetering memory of witnesses, and how-standing in a cagelike dock and facing a flower-decked bench-they heard the verdict. This week's Part II deals with the long, futile fight to save Sacco and Vanzetti from the chair-the hunt for new evidence, the repeated appeals, the worldwide furor, and the final confrontation of the accused and their judge...