Word: docks
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...before us in person, we give him the benefit of the doubt, and take for granted that he was born. . . . My parents were Cherokee Indians. Of course, our people don't claim to have come over on the Mayflower or anything like that, but we met 'em at the dock when they landed...
Last week Minister von Baligand marched down the Lisbon quay in splendid regalia, went out to inspect the German warship Konigsberg which is now visiting Portugal. Presently, in the Captain's barge, he returned to shore. As he stepped upon the dock a demented man whipped out a Mauser pistol, shot Kate's friend's husband dead...
...Medina, which in 1911 carried George V and Queen Mary to India for their Durbar, namely white with a band of royal blue. Proudly the Canadian Pacific Line will announce their new ship as the largest on the St. Lawrence route to Europe. A brand new mammoth dock awaits her at Quebec...
...stood in the dock Mr. Gandhi? like Socrates with the bowl of hemlock? delivered perhaps his greatest oration.* At his British judge the saint thundered...
...tanker-is rapidly lifting her cargo of Venezuela crude. A muffled, methodical, pumping, pumping, pumping sound, and a shimmying, twelve-inch, flexible, metallic, rubber hose, extending overside from her pipe line on deck to a connection on the dock, is all that is evident as this 100,000-barrel monster serenely discharges herself of a valuable oil cargo, and pumps it into storage tanks on shore, from where it goes to the stills and eventually becomes...