Word: piers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hartley Shawcross, who had given up all hope of catching the Queen Elizabeth, realized that the big ship was still at her pier when he cast his last vote. He telephoned the Cunard Line, made a flying trip to his hotel, packed, hustled to the dock. In the scramble he forgot his passport. His secretary got it to him, in a basket pulled up on a line, just as the ship was moving...
...steamship Rossia wallowed in the fog at Marseilles' rickety pier G. At her stern, a red flag hung limply in the November drizzle; on her funnel was the hammer and sickle.* Above the monotonous slap of the waves came occasional harsh orders, the melancholy strains of a Russian song...
...Nellie Lawrence was too old to high-dive from Brighton's pier any longer; she and her sisters turned over Roedean to big-boned, red-cheeked Emmeline Tanner. Last week, at 70, stately, awesome Miss Tanner was ready in her turn to retire...
...whistles, sirens and bells. Fireboats spouted their best special-occasion cascades. Amid this welcoming todo, the Cunarder Queen Elizabeth, spick & span in a new coat of red, white and black paint, nosed past the Statue of Liberty, headed up the Hudson. At 7:33 a.m., she tied up at Pier 90, ending her maiden commercial voyage across the North Atlantic. Henceforth the 1,031-ft., 83,673-ton Queen Elizabeth will sail weekly between New York and Southampton (the Queen Mary is still being reconverted...
...uglier vices attributed to war-time sailors. The full story is that staying "shore-side" meant immediate drafting, which, for good or bad, is never mentioned in the current charges. Further, the purely civilian status so prized by merchant seamen passed with other myths as a ship left the pier for deep waters. At sea, in convoy or out, all men were subject to certain articles of war, articles that cover union men as well as Navy yeomen, battleships as well as battered Liberties. In port, these crews, as civilians, had prerogatives denied members of the Armed Forces. The stories...