Word: deck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, from a window of the rooming house across the way, came a single shot. "It was like a stick of dynamite," recalled one aide. "It sounded like a firecracker, and I thought it was a pretty poor joke," said another. All of the aides hit the deck. The heavy-caliber bullet smashed through King's neck, exploded against his lower right jaw, severing his spinal cord and slamming him away from the rail, up against the wall, with hands drawn tautly toward his head. "Oh Lord!" moaned one of his lieutenants as he saw the blood flowing over...
...Black and we have to be together. I asked the police to step back because we can work this out among ourselves. I thought my own people would give me a little respect." With that the deck was cleared and Brown finished the show. At the end of his song the lights went out and he split. Fast...
...passengers eight across in coach class and six across in first class. Two aisles toward the sides of the plane will separate the eight seats into a two-four-two arrangement. The plane can also carry 345 people, all in tourist class. Meals will be cooked on a lower deck, sent by elevator to the passenger level. The Rolls engines will carry the big jets 3,160 miles at speeds equivalent to today's jets, but the L-101ls will need less landing and takeoff space and will arrive and depart more quietly than present jets. Beginning with...
...political deal that no President could or should enter into; 2) it would say, in effect, that he had been wrong, and Hanoi would thus receive an immeasurable lift; 3) the President would be surrendering his responsibilities to a committee; 4) the names Kennedy proposed constituted a "stacked deck"; and 5) in any event, he had already heard the views of some of those on Kennedy's list...
...Caviness, radioed Coast Guard headquarters for permission to intervene, was soon told to prevent the Cuban vessel from overrunning the lifeboat. The orders were too late. Before the cutter could move into position, the Julio made its third pass, and Caviness heard a shot fired from its deck. By the time the lifeboat came into sight again, both it and the sea around it were empty...