Word: docked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final speech from the dock, one of the most eloquent addresses ever delivered in the cause of a free Ireland, Casement declared, "Loyalty is a sentiment, not a law. It rests on love, not restraint. The government of Ireland by England rests on restraint and not on law; and since it demands no love, it can evoke no loyalty." Self-government, he added, is "a thing no more to be doled out to us or withheld from us by another people than the right to life itself-than the right to feel the sun, or smell the flowers...
...still warm, virtually all factories are still humming, and the popular mood is swinging mercurially from aggravated alarm to sour skepticism. The nation is being swept by rumors of tankers idling at sea to await higher prices before unloading, of refineries bulging with reserve stocks, of price-gouging from dock to gas pump. Forgetting how much their lives have already changed-who would have dared predict a year ago that 68° thermostat settings and gasless Sundays would so quickly become routine?-many Americans are asking not how the nation has managed to avoid the worst but whether there really...
...what turned out to be the largest Boston-area demonstration in almost two years, more than 10,000 people jammed the Congress St. dock near Boston harbor to call for the impeachment of Nixon. The demonstration, which included a counter reenactment to the official re-creation of the Boston Tea Party, concentrated on peaceful opposition to Nixon in general and his oil policies in particular...
Only a small portion of the crows came to see the official re-enactment, put on by the Boston 200 Bicentennial Commission. More than 1000 came and chanted for impeachment at a town meeting in Fanueil Hall, and then joined 9000 others at the dock for an effigy hanging of Nixon...
Once they reached the water's edge, the marchers tore down part of a chain-link fence and quickly swarmed around all sides of the dock...