Word: deck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taking parts in low-budget pictures, making guest appearances at European conventions and even endorsing the Psychic Friends Network. But she also acted as host of a nature series to be aired on the Discovery Channel this fall. Friends hoped she was rallying. "She didn't get a fair deck of cards," Sundlun says sadly. "But she handled it with incredible grace and dignity. She was a light touch in a dark world...
...four bases in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia (there may be as many as four air bases in Saudi Arabia alone, but the U.S. refuses to give the exact number). A naval station in Bahrain, headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Fleet, is host to 32 ships, including a carrier deck full of warplanes. Kuwait and Qatar have each agreed to store enough armor, artillery and supplies for an entire brigade of U.S. soldiers; a similar accord with the United Arab Emirates is in the works. And finally, the U.S. is constructing a "noose" of five air bases around the region that...
...about to drive his lance through a peasant yeoman, people are apt to do strange things. Things one wouldn't expect them to do. Things one might call downright ... unnatural. Like the three frat brothers who wrench their gaze away from the bikini-clad strumpets draped over the first-deck seats to train their binoculars on the vault pit. Or the women heading for the video monitor, who have just abandoned places in the rest-room line they have been holding for 30 minutes. Or the enterprising youngsters pelting spectators with hot-dog parts, who have suddenly adopted...
...girls slept four to a cabin, but our accommodations were like the Ritz compared with the men, who often slept on the deck rather than in the hold. We all shared one canvas tank in which to train--we would swim strapped to the side of the tank. Jack Kelly, a handsome, charming man and a splendid rower, was on that trip. He was Grace Kelly's father, you know. And despite all the chaperones, there was romance in the air. Alice Lord, one of our divers, later married Richmond Landon, who won the gold medal in the high jump...
...heard the major arguments surrounding the death penalty. In fact, I sometimes think that each side of the issue has a deck of "argument cards" that it provides its spokespeople; all they have to do is flip them in the right order. First usually comes the finance argument: the pro-capital punishment side derides the state for spending money to keep murderers alive, while the opposition fires back by insisting that it costs far more to execute a criminal than it does to maintain him in prison for life. Although nominally correct, there are several problems with this latter "card...