Word: piers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down to see the contingent's main body off at Hong Kong's pier was Malcolm MacDonald, British Commissioner-General for Southeast Asia, who sometimes wears the kilt himself. Said MacDonald to the departing soldiers: "Remember that when you are fighting North Koreans you are really fighting Russian Communism . . . Every time you hit the North Koreans you will be striking a blow, for freedom. In Korea you will be fighting just as if you were defending your beloved homeland and its people." Early this week, the British battalions landed in Kore...
...Papuan Aviation Battalion," who were paid in tobacco and trinkets. After rising to brigadier, then major general, Sverdrup came back to Missouri to work harder than ever in peacetime. His firm designed a $30 million hydroelectric plant in Missouri, and helped build the world's largest oil-loading pier, in Kuwait...
...mother's scream rose shrilly. Four-year-old Diana Svet, walking down the gangplank of the Yugoslav passenger-freighter Srbija at a Brooklyn pier last week, had broken away from her mother, started running, slipped and plunged into the narrow crevice between ship and pier...
...instant, Pier Superintendent Ignazio Scibilia yelled an ail-ashore order to his crews, unloading copper from the Srbija. Some 150 husky dockers, used to emergencies, poured from the ship and other parts of the dock. Six loading tractors were swung around with noses pressed against the Srbija's side. Hawsers were slackened, 150 men and six machines pushed, the 10,000-ton ship was forced away from the pier. With just enough space to admit them, three men snaked down into the crevice, hanging on to steel stringers, 18 feet to black water...
...Joseph Sabino. Hands from above lifted her to safety. No more than three minutes had elapsed from her plunge to her rescue. With no space in which to turn their bodies, Zappulla, Balzano and Sabino wriggled up and out of the crevice, fainted from exhaustion on the pier...