Word: docked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have on my three-piece black suit." His elevated status was symbolized by two small acts: Carter carried his scuffed spare loafing shoes on the plane; an Air Force steward carried them off. After his rest, during which he caught some sea bass and sea trout off a river dock, Carter responded to the kidding from newsmen about "the imperialization of Jimmy." He put his entire staff aboard a chartered airliner for the return flight. Back in Plains, he inherited another badge of high office: a direct telephone link with the White House switchboard, complete with a device for scrambling...
...they took on an undue burden because there was so little else in the campaign on which to make a judgment. Perhaps this accounts for how little sympathy the press and the public gave to the nervous participants. Even the setting made the candidates look like men in the dock, or like those carnival games in which you throw baseballs at a head sticking out of a hole...
...time to the welfare of the central Cambridge community, was trying to gain the floor to speak on some issue, I think it was zoning regulations in his neighborhood. Al and this man have never exchanged friendly words in my presence. As the man waited somewhat impatiently at the dock that divides up the council chambers, Al went into a rambling spiel that lasted more than 25 minutes, delving into topics as disparate as the leash law and the rising incidence of public dopesmoking. It was a sort of ad hominem filibuster, although in my assessment at the time...
...lookin' for violence? I got lots of guys in the dock who can give you violence," one of the sargeants responded when I asked if reports of any "incidents" had come in. "No, son," he said, shaking his head, "There ain't going to be much violence this year...
...motorcyclist (Harvey Jason), even a mechanic and his obstreperous girl friend (nicely played by Lazaro Perez and Tricia O'Neil) who yell and argue from the Hudson River to the Pacific. The course is the superhighway system of America. The object is to get from Manhattan to the dock of the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Calif., preferably without being busted by a perennially thwarted cop named Roscoe (Normann Burton). The best time for the race is a shade over 34 hours. There are no rules...