Word: docked
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...listener on a brief instrumental journey without leaving a lasting impression. The final three tracks, “So Much Beauty in Dirt,” “Here It Comes” and “I Came As a Rat (Long Walk Off a Short Dock)” are throwbacks to classic Modest Mouse style with a combination of vigor and witty lyrics (“The rich get money but never what they want”). It’s clear by the end, however, that there wasn’t enough quality material...
...GETTING INTO DRY DOCK Once the Kursk is held fast to the Giant 4, a tugboat will begin the long pull to dry dock in Roslyakovo, Russia. There, two additional water-filled pontoons will be attached alongside the barge...
...water is pumped out of the pontoons, the ships should rise high enough in the water to fit into the dry dock. Tugboats will guide the unwieldy craft into place. In the dock, the cables to the Kursk will be lowered, the plugs removed and the sub released Tugboats will then pull the Giant 4 and the pontoons out of the dry dock. The dock holding the sub will then be raised from the water...
...realize how much this music means to the students we serve, though. Periodically, instead of awakening to alarm clocks or trucks on the loading dock, we are awakened by Robert, the French horn player, who likes to warm up out on the front lawn at about 7:45 in the morning. And we are all thankful that the small building across from our windows is home to the bassists and not the trumpet players, because they are outside practicing all the time. The lawns and small practice sheds here are constantly full of music. These high school kids...
...When it happened we were all caught off guard - including Kennedy. He was on board his yacht, the Marlin, pushing off from the family dock in Hyannis Port, Massachussets, preparing for a well-deserved cruise with family and friends and a couple of bowls of fish chowder, his favorite dish. A military duty officer rushed down to the beach with the first flash. He walked into the surf in full uniform to deliver the grim news to Brig. Gen. Chester Clifton, the Presidents military aide who signaled the Marlin back to port. He handed the dispatch to Kennedy who read...