Word: docked
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...Client in 1994 and has since starred in Sleepers and Apt Pupil, was charged with grand theft after he and an accomplice allegedly tried to steal a 45-ft. yacht from a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., marina. They might have got away with it had they only untied the dock lines. Police are investigating whether the duo was under the influence of drugs or alcohol, a touchy subject for Renfro, who had a 1998 drug-possession charge dropped after reaching an agreement with prosecutors. Renfro was freed on a $10,000 bond and allowed to begin work on Bully, a film...
...waited. I guessed wrong, as I always do. After a moment or two, they popped up in an opposite, unexpected quarter. The loon is a deadpan wit. We repeated the game three times. At last, they tired of me, and vanished. As I paddled across flat water to the dock, I heard a single loon call in the swampish bay beyond the lodge - the loneliest sound on earth, a premonition of winter, of what's to come...
...looked like the kind of moment that opposition researchers spend their lives trying to unearth. Just as 13 Iranian Jews stood in the prisoner's dock of an Islamic court on espionage charges last June, Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney delivered a notably discordant message. At a meeting of the World Petroleum Congress, Cheney called for a quick end to U.S. economic sanctions against Iran, which was in the process of negotiating $8 billion in oil and gas contracts with his firm's foreign rivals. "We're kept out of there primarily by our own government," said Cheney. "I think that...
...Time Is on My Side - Rolling Stones 2. Sitting on the Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding 3. Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin 4. Heard It Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye 5. Under the Boardwalk 6. To Love Somebody - Janis Joplin 7. You've Lost that Loving Feeling - Righteous Brothers 8. Tracks of My Tears - Smokey Robinson & Miracles 9. River Deep, Mountain High - Animals 10. House of the Rising Sun - Animals...
This spring I got that opportunity. Along with a rotating crew of two dozen TIME writers and reporters, I took a two-week trip down the river on the Grampa Woo III, a delightful chartered boat with a very flexible captain, Dana Kollars, who was able to dock or anchor to suit our reporting needs. We made 40 or so stops along the way, some planned and others serendipitous, listening to the issues people were discussing and searching for stories that showed how our nation is coping at the start of a new century. Then we dispatched reporters...