Word: docked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fruitless days -at a daily wage of $100-the anglers came up with unsuitable catches. Frantic, the film company sent to Florida, and a 13-ft. tiger shark was flown up, packed in ice like a gourmet CARE package. The imported fish hung from a hook on the Edgartown dock for four days, sending up such a powerful stench in the hot sun that it quickly lost much of its curiosity value. Some townsfolk reciprocated later by depositing on Canuck and Brown's doorstep the moldering carcasses of sharks from local waters...
However, since 1962, when Harvard crew coach Harry Parker arrived on the dock of Newell Boat House that atmosphere and tradition has failed to hold on the water. Saturday afternoon, in New London, Conn., was a case in point. Parker's varsity eight flexed its cars shortly into the start of the 110th Harvard-Yale race and cruised up the Thames River, leaving the hapless Elis splashing it out some 11 lengths behind in a furious wake...
...most depressing moment came when we were taken into Kompong Som. I looked up and saw all those armed people on the dock and I thought, this is it, the old North Viet Nam prison stunt. I figured they'd march us down the street and into some jail and nobody would hear from us for years...
...want to consider them together; in this manner, Americans and Canadians could agree to let in more European industrial exports in exchange for greater freedom of access to the European market for farm goods. For precisely the same reason, Europeans are lobbying against such linked bargaining. Their argument: recent dock blockades, riots and demonstrations by European farmers are ominous signs of a potential social upheaval unless special measures are taken to protect Europe's ancient and comparatively backward agriculture...
...haggard face gave vivid evidence that he had been harshly treated. But even then, a shocked world could hardly imagine what had been done to make so proud and stubborn a man as József Cardinal Mindszenty, Primate of Hungary, stand in the dock and drone out a confession to patently false charges of treason and conspiracy. Only when he published his Memoirs late last year did he provide a full account of how Communist police had broken his spirit. For five weeks he was harangued, stripped naked, kept forcibly awake, drugged and thrashed endlessly with a rubber truncheon...