Word: docked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...court, reported TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs from Luanda, the mercenaries were dressed identically in beltless, one-piece tan prison-issue jumpsuits. During the twice-daily sessions, the prisoners sat calmly on backless wooden stools on a red-roped dock facing the tribunal−a court that consisted of two Angolan lawyers, two soldiers and a representative of OMA, the national women's organization. The mercenaries followed the questioning intently on headsets for simultaneous translation into five languages−English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian. There was a point to having the proceedings delivered in the two latter...
Luis Tiant pitched the entire game, which marked his seventh win of the season. Dock Ellis, the Yankee starter, was knocked out in the second inning...
Howard Hughes trucked his HK1 flying boat (in pieces) to Long Beach Harbor, assembled it in a graving dock in Long Beach Harbor and flew the Spruce Goose in 1947, again in Long Beach Harbor-not Los Angeles Harbor, as your captions twice incorrectly indicate...
...strong winds bothered Radcliffe all weekend, and caused cancellation of several races on Saturday. In one gust, an empty boat without its sail up got loose from the dock and capsized in a puff...
Iran quite simply wants to do too much too fast. The trouble can be most easily seen anywhere needed imports arrive. Every Iranian port on the Persian Gulf, from Abadan to Bandar Abbas, has become not a gateway but a bottleneck. Dock facilities are totally inadequate to handle the volume of goods that have been ordered. Despite round-the-clock shifts for longshoremen and feverish construction of new piers, the average time for a ship to get a berth is an almost incredible 150 days...