Word: piers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waterfront, two coal barges burned and smoked. The pier had disappeared and so had the lighters and the twelve railroad cars. The Stink House was a torn, shattered wreck; fire danced in its innards. Unexploded mines were scattered for hundreds of yards, embedded in coal piles and backyards, teetering on roofs. In a still smoking area, littered with dead fish, four bodies were found, but that was all. There was no trace of the 31 men who had been working on the dock. They had been blown to bits...
...pumps, looking for cash but finding mostly romance. So far, they had raised what seemed to be an ancient, encrusted cannonball. It turned out to be a clinker dumped off a World War II coal ship. A piece of ancient planking turned out to be part of the town pier. Some mysterious round objects turned out to be weights from a modern fishing net. A bonanza haul of large scallops had a solid market value of three shillings apiece in the London markets. But by week's end the divers had found a genuine Spanish dagger...
...year-old, all-steel excursion boat "Boston Belle" will depart from Company's Pier, Atlantic Avenue, at 8:40 p.m. June 20, chartered by the class. There will be liquor aboard, and the entire middle deck of the boat will be given over to dancing, Coombs said. The boat will dock at midnight...
Tuesday, June 20--Class Day Exercises at 3 p.m. in Sever Quadrangle and Moonlight Cruise, leaving at 8:40 p.m. from Company's Pier, Atlantic Avenue, Boston...
When she was five, an older boy playfully threw Betty off the end of a pier. She hit a nail in one of the pilings and snagged her left cheek, near the eye; the scar is still faintly noticeable. "It made my inferiority complex worse," says Betty. "The kids called me 'Bad-eye Bodie' and nicknames like that, that hurt real bad. So I acted fresh and tomboyish, as if I was tougher than anybody on the block...