Word: unload
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...steered the vessel into Rotterdam rather than Le Havre. Kennecott then got a Dutch court to order the impounding not only of the cargo but of the ship as well. The vessel was finally permitted to leave port, but only on condition that it proceed to Le Havre and unload the copper there, where payment for it cannot be made until final disposition of the case...
...down jet aircraft are catapulted into the air from the backs of large trucks. As they come within range of enemy radar, the planes take electronic measures to prevent detection. They are spotted by several interceptor aircraft but manage to outmaneuver them. Finally, the minibombers reach their target and unload their explosives with deadly accuracy. Several enemy surface-to-air missiles score hits on the raiders, but not a single pilot is killed, lost or captured. Reason: the mission has been flown entirely by robot aircraft, guided by ground controllers hundreds of miles away...
...regularly and efficiently dispatched-and for the French government in the postwar years. In 1948 Paris called upon the Union Corse to break a strike by Communist-controlled unions that threatened to close the port of Marseille. The Union Corse obliged by providing an army of strikebreaking longshoremen to unload the ships and a crew of assassins to gun down defiant union leaders. French government officials have not forgotten such favors...
...Labor Party, predicted in a speech in Parliament early last week that the Tory government would devalue the pound in July or August. Currency speculators-mostly commercial bankers and treasurers of multinational corporations-took Healey's forecast as confirmation of their worst fears and began to unload pounds. On a single day, Thursday, about $1.2 billion worth of pounds were sold by speculators. In order to keep the pound's price in other currencies from dropping too sharply, European central banks had to pay out some $2.5 billion...
Perhaps 60% of the Rose Bowl merchants operate a high-class shop somewhere else and use the Pasadena sale to unload excess stock. One designer, Frances Bi-coll, offered second-graded bikinis for $6 that if perfect might retail at I. Magnin for $25. She explained, "We can sell them here for below wholesale and at least break even, instead of holding them over into next year." Mrs. J.F. Whitecotton, who until last month worked as an assistant in a school cafeteria, peddles different wares...