Word: dockland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thrust of debate, her points are as emphatic as the slap of a wet cod across a face. Newspapers poke sly fun at her, other M.P.s snicker at her, county squires snort: "She's a disgrace to public life." But among her constituents in Liverpool's grimy dockland, Mrs. Bessie Braddock, M.P., is a beloved and admired champion...
Word spread through Tyneside's grimy dockland that Cwiklinski-Captain Jan, some called him-had gone ashore to see a movie, The Cruel Sea, and then got in touch with the local Polish colony. The ship's medical officer was gone, too. Last week Britain's Home Secretary confirmed the news: the ship's doctor and Captain Jan, holder of the Gold Cross of Merit for "outstanding service" to the Polish Communist regime, had separately asked for political asylum in Britain, and it had been granted...