Word: docked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...husband Pat aboard their 39-ft. sailboat, the Tranquillity II, liked to collect everyone's aluminum cans, sell them and use the money for the regular Saturday hamburger cookouts. In the winter, when the weather was right, 25 or 30 people would wander down to the end of the dock to a little pavilion they called Fiddler's Green and spend the cocktail hour watching for the elusive sunset phenomenon known as the green flash. The ships' store was out there, with the telephones and mailboxes...
...early-morning breakfast places, people were telling one another that he was part of the Theurer family that had made its money in truck- trailer manufacturing. "To be fair, no one knows what he is going to do with the marina," said a longtime resident, sitting on the dock in an aluminum chair...
...purpose of grand juries has been the same: to determine whether there is enough evidence to bring an accused person to trial. But the confusing three-month period it took to decide whether Bernhard Goetz should be charged with attempted murder has put the grand jury system in the dock once again: one panel refused to indict Goetz for that crime, a second panel decided the other way, and the secret deliberations and procedures became almost as controversial as the subway shooting itself...
Immediately after his arrest, security officials say, Treholt offered to become a double agent, a gesture they refused. Treholt, who faces a jail , sentence of up to 20 years if found guilty, admits that he passed minor classified documents to KGB agents. But, he declared from the dock, "I have never on any occasion betrayed information concerning the nation's security or military secrets...
...call Pa Legal at Wanderlust Adventures (303-484-1219) to sign up for a whitewater raft trip. Following Route 40 west in Northern Colorado, turn onto Route 318 at Maybell. A spectacular drive down the vermillion bluff will lead you to The Gates of Ledore, huge rocks, and your dock on the Green River. You'll spend three days with eagles and sheep and enough sleepers and rapids to make you happy to get back to the safety of Cambridge. Not only is Legal an expert raftsman, he's a gourmet cook, and after you've survived the hell...