Word: docked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fire Island--a 32-mile stretch of sandy New York resort towns, whose main purpose is to keep the Atlantic Ocean off of the front lawns of all those nice mainlanders on nearby Long Island--my neighbors and I huddled together on the pleasantly rickety old ferry dock, waiting for the Coast Guard to make good on its early-morning evacuation order. Earlier, a few of my closer and more foolhardy friends had announced their plan to defy the local honchos and ride out the storm, and for a while I had entertained hopes of joining their struggle against...
Naming Carter Man of the Year may be tantamount to calling the Titanic the boat of the year. Performance is measured on the high seas, not on how well something looks in dry dock...
...November 1965 Chicago police arrested Donald Lang, 20, for the murder of a prostitute who had been found in a ghetto alley brutally beaten and stabbed to death. The cops were certain they had their man: the hooker was last seen leaving a nearby tavern with Lang, a Chicago dock worker, and a speedy investigation turned up bloodstained clothing in his apartment. Lang's alibi? He had none. But then he could not talk. Nor could he hear, read, write or use sign language. Lang was a deaf-mute who communicated solely by gestures and rough drawings. Because...
...Among other stresses and strains are those that occur when a vessel that was empty a few hours before has up to 200,000 tons of oil suddenly poured aboard under rapid loading conditions. At some discharge ports, very big ships can dock only at high tide. Delays can mean the ship sits on her bottom plates in shallow water before the draft can be lightened sufficiently. Such structural strains are repeated and severe, and, coupled with the tremendous rate of corrosion, they shorten the life of the vessels and constantly weaken them...
Linked to the Patriarch's slipping are the tropics continually decaying: dusty palms, the band playing on Sundays in the park, the abandoned American cruiser rusting at its dock. The brilliant fantasy of Garcia Marquez's details exorcizes tropical nostalgia, and makes The Autumn of the Patriarch the rarest novel to appear this year...