Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where fishermen's cottages had stood, workmen were building the blast furnace and rolling mills of Huachipato, the No. 2 steel plant in Latin America (No. 1: Brazil's Volta Redonda). Where fishermen had spread their nets to dry, there was an 890-ft. dock. Modern brick houses for 4,000 workers were springing up in a planned industrial city which Chileans proudly compared to Oak Ridge...
Dona Luisa Maria Narvaez y Macias, Perez de Guzman el Bueno y Ramirez de Arellano, Marquesa de Cartago, Condesa de Canada Alta, Vizcondesa Aliatar and Duquesa de Valencia, had just spent nine months in the clink. Last week she sat, lithe and beautiful, in the prisoner's dock, her astrakhan coat open wide to reveal the soft drape of a smart beige gown and a length of shapely leg. From time to time as the prosecutor read the indictment, her long, blood-red fingernails fondled a corsage of tea roses at her shoulder as she cast a slow smile...
...their gum when they read that Miss Hayworth looked "as pale and haggard as though she had walked all the way from Hollywood [to meet her] gold-plated boy friend from mystic India." She scurried aboard the liner Britannic, the Daily News went on, over a gangplank "ordinarily used, dock workers said, to take bodies aboard, or to carry off the ship's refuse...
...deLesseps ("Chep") Morrison. Already holding more power than any other U.S. governor, Earl had asked the voters to approve 41 constitutional amendments which would have vastly extended his control over state spending. One amendment would have given him domination of the port of New Orleans through control of the Dock Board which supervises the port's increasing commerce. Another would have made Louisiana State University a mere political subdivision of the governor's office (as it was under Huey...
...days when the fog lies still and heavy over the harbors, when the damp beads the dock lines and the only sound is the creak of fenders against pilings, New England's fishermen can still strike up an argument over the loss of the steamer Portland. Her sinking, with the loss of all hands, is New England's most famous shipwreck, and the 1898 gale in which she went down is still known, from Nantucket to Bangor, as "the Portland gale...