Word: piers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plodded back across the Pacific, rested briefly at San Diego and went on to New York Harbor. She was tucked away in an East River pier, her carcass decently out of-sight. Agents came aboard her to calculate coldly the amount of aluminum in her superstructure, the steel in her hull. Officers and men learned then that old Pat was through. They were not bitter. More than 200 other veterans of World War II (about 600,000 tons of warships) were also marked for the scrap heap. Considering the life she had led, Pat had lasted a long time...
...Portal and Lady Portal were also aboard. As the Mary edged up to Southampton Sunday noon, the Prime Minister (in pale grey suit, blue tie) gawped momentarily at a quayside thronged with cheering people, then noted that they were cheering British prisoners of war arriving simultaneously at an adjacent pier. The Prime Minister waved, and joined in the cheering...
Then the Customs House got interested; it seems she was taking some clothes to her husband's Russian secretary. And at the last minute the parade for General Wainwright almost kept her from getting to the pier. (But through it all young Craig beamed: at last, after talking about it for months, he'd been able to tell his schoolmates, "I'm going to Russia tomorrow...
Inventor R. M. Hamilton started in a small way with the "Swiss Roll," a can-vas-and-wood pier to be carried, rolled up, on a ship's deck. During the Normandy invasion, trucks speeded over an unrolled roll to safety on the beach. Final flowering of the idea was Lily...
When father Donadieu began to suspect his daughter's romance, he roared: "If that young ruffian has the nerve to set foot in this house . .I'll throw him out head foremost." Soon after, old Donadieu's water-logged corpse was found under a pier. The villagers wondered: did he fall or was he pushed? Old man Donadieu is merely the first ill-fated character in Author Simenon's latest book - which traces the decline and fall of the bereft Donadieu family through 371 hard-breathing pages. By the time Author Simenon dusts his hands...