Word: brightwork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Potomac's Columbia Island Marina, pleasure boats bake like muffins in the sun. Women in shorts and bare-chested men sweat over engines, hulls and brightwork. Strung along the docks here and there, families perch like terns as they munch their sandwiches, while over at the launching ramp, a black-and-white Pontiac with a black-and-white outboard runabout in tow backs tortuously toward the water. Pontiac and runabout have matching upholstery, matching fins, matching wraparound windshields...
...casual European who puts his glass to his eye is likely to identify the U.S. today as a sort of gigantic liner on a luxury cruise. She sails serenely into the atomic age, with a rich mixture of smoke pouring from her stacks. Her paint and brightwork are spick-and-span. Lights burn brightly from every porthole, and occasional snatches of music float out. Her passengers, sports-dressed and bullion-blessed, spend seemingly endless hours on deck playing shuffleboard...
...house. The Colonial-style home was immediately transformed into a "ship." A twenty-four hour watch was stood, and classes for midshipmen were held over the same mahogany table where the Overseers dined in years past. Mis-behaving scamen were assigned to scrub the "deck" and polish the "brightwork"--in this case, oak floors and gold mirrors. Consequently, when the admiral moved out, the ship was little worse for the wear and tear. The Conants were astonished to discover that even the bottles in the wine-cellar were undisturbed. Somehow, through four years of Navy discipline and inspection...