Word: deck
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Survivors of the accident -- most of whom are men between the ages of 20 and 50 -- gave harrowing accounts to Plon. Said one Swedish man: "We had our berths furthest down below the car deck. We were three in the cabin and could not sleep. Then we heard a funny, scraping sound along the wall, and then the boat began to tilt. I immediately felt that the list was so severe that it would capsize. I ran as fast as I could. There was panic. Many ran and tried to get out, and many screamed. I saw many elderly people...
...remembers a night they spent cruising up the Hudson River at a wedding reception on a yacht. "Mike and I went up on deck, and we were the only two up there," she recalls. "We were slow dancing, and I was thinking about how romantic it was. And then Mike says, 'Do you have any idea how many dead bodies there are in this river...
Three seats, upper deck but right behind home plate (and sheltered from the rain), for me, my little brother, and my friend Matt. Matt was late getting to our rendezvous point at the train station, but no matter--we arrived two minutes after the 12:35 matinee was scheduled to begin, only to find the tarpaulin covering the field and security guards patrolling the dugout for lack of players...
...Braves won, I think by a final of 4-2, with McGriff or maybe Justice belting a two-run shot to open the scoring in the sixth. Matt left early knowing that Atlanta's lead was almost safe, and after we moved to the lower deck for the final two innings, my brother actually had his hands on a foul shot of his own before it was wrenched away by stronger muscles. We traded quips about our terrible bullpen, even though McMichael actually notched a save for us, and the Braves salvaged something from the series. But all I could...
...almost no action or dialogue in present time. What the author offers is Broderick, onstage alone, scratching his head and relating what he has learned from a phone call or an old police report. Blue had a husband named Teddy who got stoned and fell out of the second deck at Tiger Stadium on their wedding afternoon. Somebody else fell or was pushed from a hotel window, landing on a mounted policeman, killing the policeman and his horse. Good stuff but old stuff, not dramatized but simply retold...