Word: decked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bridge was almost eclipsed and so was gin rummy. A double-deck card game called Canasta had spread over the hemisphere. In Buenos Aires, citadel of the game, Canasta had progressed from a diversion to a rage...
...game uses a double deck with four jokers-108 cards. The jokers and all deuces are wild. Red treys are bonus cards, worth 100 extra points. Black treys, by contrast, are purely defensive cards, and can be melded only when the player goes out at the end of a game. In the scoring, a canasta (literally, basket) is a seven-card meld, and if a player makes it the hard way (using no wild cards), the bonus is 500 points. Scoring can run into the thousands in a single hand; 5,000 points is game. In most forms of rummy...
...have been by hairbreadth margins, and Navy, Penn, or Princeton may well turn the tables on them today. Yale's second boat is also reputedly hot; two weeks ago it beat its Navy counter part by more than two lengths, while Harvard was only able to squeeze out a deck-length win over the same Middle combination...
...that the published accounts of a race have little, if anything, to do with its actual conduct. Last Saturday the scribes huddled on the way down to the starting line and selected a cleancut Annapolis second classman as official Recorder of The Stroke. This gentleman stepped to the poop deck of the lobster boat that the HAA had thoughtfully hired, cleared his throat, and made the following announcement...
...Rouner managed to keep the Crimson shell out in front all the way, but second place changed hands several times as the stroke went up to 38 nearing the finish. Penn's sprint failed, however, and the Sailors coasted in a deck-length back of Harvard and a third of a length in front of the Red and Blue...