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stevedore
(redirected from dock worker)

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stevedore
a person employed to load or unload ships


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It's sufficient to make one recall those twisty brotherhood dock workers in ``Atop the Waterfacade,'' the ones who displayed rodents on sharply bent devices and retracted Marlon Brando's opportunity to become unidentified word or slang.
Once the bomb is ready, Dressler ships it to Baltimore on a Ukrainian freighter, where a disaffected white supremacist dock worker picks it up and places it -- disguised as a vending machine -- in the parking lot of an NFL stadium.
are growing increasingly nervous about open threats of a work stoppage by dock workers at the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach and other West Coast locations if a new three-year contract is not reached by the deadline.
 
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