Word: docked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movements. The yacht Sequoia became Nixon's favorite refuge as his prospects blackened; his enemies could be left behind as he headed down the Potomac. Perhaps that is why the President was so enraged when he found the hated newsmen and photographers waiting at the Anacostia River dock when he drove up and when he sailed back in. "Get the goddam press out of here," he would say. He wondered out loud to David Eisenhower whether the Navy could not give him another berth for his boat. David sought to calm him. He told him the way to avoid...
...hours spent on the water, hauling heavy "drudges" and sorting crabs as they scamper across a pitching deck have fostered a deep affection for the stoic, whimsical fisher folk. That feeling shines through Warner's retelling of Jaws-style crises spawned at "liar's bench" on the dock at Crisfield...
...Crimson publishes a list of candidates President Bok is considering for the Deanship of the Med School. The list includes: Doc Watson, Doc Medich, E.L. Doctorow, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Doctor John, Baby Doc Duvalier, Doc Hines, Dock Ellis, Otis Redding, Dr. Joyce Brothers and Doctor Doolittle...
...legal niceties. Dissidents are rounded up and tried according to a new law that makes it simple to expunge alleged enemies of the state. That law is also retroactive. A man who received a light sentence for pasting up a radical poster just weeks before finds himself in the dock again, this time condemned to death...
Nigeria is not the only oil-rich country with cargo headaches. In Iran, ships wait up to three months to dock at Persian Gulf ports, trucks are backed up at border customs checkpoints and valuable military supplies are rusting away out on the sand or in warehouses while authorities try to process them. "It resembles a chaotic flea market," says one U.S. Pentagon officer. An aide to Defense Secretary James Schlesinger has been sent to Tehran to help unclog the backlog in order to make way for still more supplies, including the first of 80 F-14 Tomcats, that...