Word: deck
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...coast of that island, at 10 a.m. on May 10, 1945, a Japanese Zero flew in low against the U.S. aircraft carrier Bunker Hill and crashed onto the flight deck, igniting the 30 planes waiting to fly sorties. Thirty seconds later, another Japanese suicide flight dropped out of the sky and struck the Bunker Hill amidships, ripping open a 12m. hole with the blast of its 250-kg bomb and turning the fast carrier into an inferno for the next six hours. Of the 3,000 crewmen on board, 353 died in the smoke and flames. The kamikaze attacks were...
...debut album, Jacky Terrasson (Blue Note), he squeezes fresh insight and nuance out of fossilized tunes like My Funny Valentine, Bye Bye Blackbird and Porter's I Love Paris by accelerating the tempos, throwing in breakneck stops and starts and reassembling the melodies as if shuffling a deck of cards. The effect is to make sentimental and familiar numbers sound strangely renewed. "There's really no point in covering standards if you're not going to make them sound fresh," Terrasson says. Anyone who listens to his treatment of a standby such as Time After Time will agree...
...Italianate Victorian house has an entry hall; a grand living room with fireplace, interior shutters, bay windows, wide pine floors; a dining room with original plaster moldings and formal French doors opening to the deck and gardens; and a modern chef's kitchen with oak floors and an arched ceiling...
More than 100 Grateful Dead fans were hurt, five critically, when a covered wooden deck at a campground near the site of a St. Louis-area concert collapsed, apparently under the weight of hundreds of youths seeking shelter from rain. Earlier, two fans were found dead at the campground, possibly from drug-related causes. And a concert near Indianapolis was canceled after a crowd of unruly fans without tickets had to be quelled by riot police. --By Kathleen Adams, Melissa August, Nick Catoggio, Lina Lofaro, Michael Quinn, Alain L. Sanders, Anastasia Toufexis and Sidney Urquhart
Lovell himself has a cameo role in the movie--he's the Navy commander who greets Hanks on the deck of the recovery ship. At the end of the film, Lovell shakes Hanks's hand...