Word: docked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always, was not to give an inch. At most, the U.S. would sanction what it called "discussions" with the terrorists on the safety of the hostages. Washington urged the other governments not to yield. The U.S. pleaded with all Mediterranean nations not to permit the Achille Lauro to dock at their ports...
...situation reached crisis point early Tuesday afternoon as the gunmen awaited permission from Syrian authorities for the Achille Lauro to dock at Tartus. The hijackers had asked by radio to be put in touch with the Italian and American ambassadors in Damascus, hoping to negotiate the release of their 50 comrades in Israel. A Lebanese radio station monitored the chilling sequence of threats by one of the gunmen. At 12:30 p.m. Tuesday: "Any delay in the arrival of the ambassadors will be damaging." At 12:32 p.m.: "There is no time to lose, and the first ultimatum...
...firm does not make much money on the Souweine job suggests how hard it is to get rich in the construction business. Still, the Corps is a young outfit that needs the work. Jim, Ned, Alex and Richard are equal partners on an honor system that requires each to dock his pay if he does not think he has done his share. They allot themselves $14 an hour and split whatever profit is left over at the end of the project. In this case it amounts to only $3,000 out of a contracted price of $146,000. The Souweines...
...Walesa had been summoned by the prosecution to testify in the trial of three Solidarity supporters, Bogdan Lis, Wladyslaw Frasyniuk and Adam Michnik, charged with trying to organize strikes to protest food-price increases. Walesa's testimony was as defiant as his dress. "Three innocent people are in the dock," he told the court...
Fifty years. It depends on how you look at it. To the prisoner in the dock when the judge says, "Fifty years," it is forever. To Harvard preparing for its 350th Anniversary, it is a respectable but not particularly imposing period of time. To the Class of 1935 celebrating its 50th Reunion, it is somewhere in between...