Word: wharfing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite sleet and freezing drizzle, some 10,000 spectators watched at Griffin's Wharf while history buffs crept aboard the 97-ft. brigantine Beaver II, a replica of one of the three ships sacked in 1773. Like the 18th century patriots, the raiders masqueraded as Indians...
...shacks on the edge of the canal. There we talked with Vienna-born Joseph Nekhan, 27, a first lieutenant in an Austrian tank battalion who had been seconded to the U.N. Emergency Force. Below him, Egyptian soldiers in beige work clothes carried cartons from the trucks to a makeshift wharf. Israeli officers spot-checked the boxes for contraband by occasionally ripping open a package of sweets or a carton of cigarettes. The Egyptians then put the cartons on Russian-made amphibious tanks that churned slowly across the canal to the east side where they were unloaded. The process was slow...
...must-see" places that can be covered in a two-or-three-week stay. The standard Grand Tour in the New World always includes New York (main attractions: skyscrapers and Harlem), Washington (Government buildings and, recently, Watergate), the Los Angeles area (Disneyland), and San Francisco (Fisherman's Wharf and Chinatown). For strict adherents to this two-coast itinerary, middle America is likely to exist in memories and snapshots as the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas or one of the national parks-all popular stops between the two Atlantic and two Pacific cities...
...thieves, drug smugglers and illegal aliens. She has mastered the use of the .38-cal. revolver she carries, as well as such mysterious port argot as: "There's a camel loose in the channel; get a sea gull to pick it up." Translation: "A wharf pile is afloat; get a refuse boat to pick...
...Storey told us of the war against old age, quavering forays into the land mines of memory, desperate territorial imperatives like holding on to a chair in the sun at a home for the insane. In The Contractor, which also had its U.S. première at the Long Wharf, Storey told of the daily war of work, the campaign that liquidates itself with the setting sun and must be fought again the very next day. Man and his toil-Sisyphus agonistes. Men put up a tent for a wedding party and then take it down. That is all that...