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Word: drydocking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eagles had gotten their first run off Brown in the first on a double by Tillett, and added another in the third to pull within two but the batsmen put the "w" in drydock with two in the fourth and three in the sixth...

Author: By Bill Schefi, | Title: Batsmen Bag B.C. With 10-5 Drubbing | 4/12/1979 | See Source »

...their NATO allies. He barred the U.S. Sixth Fleet from liberty visits to Malta in 1972. But he has also refused to let Moscow establish an embassy. Mintoff has tried to pursue a course that he calls "positive neutrality." Aside from China, which is helping Malta build a drydock for supertankers, at a cost of $40 million, Mintoffs greatest friend of the moment is Libya. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi last week pledged "total support," but nobody knows exactly what that may mean. Many Maltese nevertheless resent the growing Libyan influence, which includes TV programs in Arabic. Unlike their Prime Minister, some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALTA: Our Sad Adieu | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...sensation that shot right up through your upper vacillary and pitched camp in that nostalgic, ever-chilklike corner of your mind. And maybe it was the warm sun, maybe it was the fact that you could put your down-filled whatever into drydock for an afternoon, but it was there, and the aroma tingled "baseball" and nothing else...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Diamond Time is Nigh | 2/21/1979 | See Source »

Starship Enterprise and crew are coming out of drydock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: New Treat for Trekkies | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

Since the series ended, Captain (now Admiral) Kirk has been kicked upstairs to dull desk duty, Mr. Spock has settled on his native Vulcan, and "Bones" McCoy has become a bearded country doctor. The Enterprise itself is in drydock. Suddenly a Starfleet monitoring station spots an immense alien "force" speeding toward earth at "warp seven" speed, making nasty noises and devouring spaceships like popcorn. Out of drydock comes the Enterprise, and Kirk is returned to its command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: New Treat for Trekkies | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

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