Word: docked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offering as much challenge as pity when she branded Hemingway and his contemporaries as the "lost generation." Hemingway took to the bullring, Fitzgerald to the dance floor, where much of his nation joined him. Like Gatsby, most people "believed in the green light" at the end of the dock, despite the disillusionment and damnation around them...
...observers, the figure thus impeccably attired was not really Civilization, but just a powerfully angry American, name of Robert Jackson of Jamestown, N.Y. But to the more imaginative (including Jackson) it was Civilization itself which stood at the prosecutor's rostrum, resonantly accusing the 20 Germans in the dock of vile assault & battery on all mankind...
...Evil Counsel. Without farewells from Jew or Arab, the British Governor General, tired-looking General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, flew to Haifa in an R.A.F. plane. There, at 10:05 a.m., he stepped into a naval launch and was sped out to the light cruiser Euryalus. On the dock, a bagpiper skirled the melancholy tune of The Minstrel Boy. Precisely at midnight, the Euryalus passed the three-mile limit of Palestine's territorial waters. From Royal Navy headquarters atop Mount Carmel a flare shot up, arched slowly, and fell flaming among the tall dark cypresses on the mountain slope...
While the coming battle is unlikely to match the one ignited by last December's debut of bank and S and L money-market accounts, when some institutions briefly offered rates as high as 25%, the competition is likely to be fierce. Dollar-Dry Dock Savings Bank in New York is already luring investors with an annual rate of 13% on a savings instrument that the bank will convert on Oct. 1 to a one-year CD paying at least...
...divers resumed yesterday morning and the cabin cruiser's windshield broke the surface around 11:30 a.m. Shortly after noon, the boat was lifted by crane to a nearby floating dry dock...