Word: docked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best to look meditative. "If you're quiet," he says, "even with this crowd, you can get a sense of the solitude." For Bradley, a reluctant celebrity since the age of 16, the river can be about connection one minute, blessed aloneness the next. He marches onto a floating dock and we follow, threatening to swamp the old planks. Ernestine panics: "Bill! I'll go with you! If we drown, we drown together!" To avert disaster, Bradley's people tell the media to go out in mini packs. An aide complains, "It's just a bunch of pencils"--reporters...
...pretty it is. Out on the dock, Ernestine shucks off her heels and dangles her feet in the water. Cameras click and whir; Bradley's people smile and nod. "It's just one of those places that touch me deeply," Bradley says. When the last mini-pack clambers off the dock, he turns to an aide and asks, "Is that...
...Archie Bunker (All in the Family); dock foreman...
...courtesy Clinton had observed until the Hormel decision, when, with Senate leaders holding the nomination hostage to the wishes of their conservative wing, it must have seemed pointless. Backing down now, however, is not so pointless -- not when Richard Holbrooke is finally headed for the Senate dock...
...They may decide he is more useful to them alive and in a nebulous position where he's essentially pleading for his life," says Dowell. But with Kosovo firing up NATO members over the human rights of ethnic minorities, Ocalan's trial may also put Turkey itself in the dock...