Word: docked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When led from the dock, the Jordanian smiled and raised two fingers in a "V" for victory sign...
...long dock. The balconies. The flag...
...wife, a school teacher, and two children. Army service, 1965 to 1968. Flight school on the G.I. Bill. Joined the San Antonio police department and stayed four years. Missed home. "It's mostly the people here. It's more relaxed." Took a job as a longshoreman on the dock at Lake Charles. Then the work, much of it loading rice, went slack. Cretini switched to shrimping. So did scores of other unemployed Louisianans. At last look, the Lake Charles' unemployment rate was 14.8%, more than double the national average. A local official estimates that there are 2,000 commercial shrimpers...
...During the boat ride from Greece, we spent one night on a dock in Crete and a storyteller told tales by candlelight," Golden recalls. "It wasn't a very safe part of town, but I felt really secure sitting by this little candle stuck in a paper cup and listening to a man who wasn't that much older than me telling stories of people on the road. He didn't want to get a Ph.D or anything, he just wanted to be a storyteller. That is one of my most vivid memories...
...seven months a Mafia trial that dwarfs the various legal proceedings in New York has been under way. In the homeland of the Cosa Nostra, 474 alleged Mafiosi, whose ranks range from the reputed "Boss of Bosses," Luciano Liggio, to a corps of picciotti, or soldiers, are in the dock for crimes as high as assassination and as low as auto theft...