Word: docked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people who were accused of taking part. It was the longest-running case in Japanese judicial history. When Judge Seirokuro Hamaguchi, 62, offered the opinion that the case had not violated the constitutional guarantee of "a speedy and public trial," several angry defendants shouted "Bakayaro!" (Idiot) from the dock...
...shots and to produce documentaries glorifying the country's President. A truck driver he encounters is so desperate at the thought of losing a day's pay that he jams onto the last run of a ferry; it is so overloaded that the movement from the dock jolts him and his truck into the river, where he drowns...
This feeling is reinforced by an all-round frustration. "Nothing seems to work properly any more," says Political Analyst William Pfaff. "Industry makes cheap goods but wrecks the landscape and pollutes the air and rivers. Technocrats tell us all problems are soluble, but their submarines sink at the dock and scientific administrators spill nerve gas onto grazing lands and then lie about it. Bureaucracies make the system function, but they meddle in private lives...