Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Played with a special deck of 100 cards, each suit representing an industry, it was supposed to combine education in market technique with many of the charms of poker...
...deck of the Queen of Bermuda, three hours out of Hamilton bound" for Manhattan, a husky youngster in knee breeches stepped bravely up to a steward. "My name is Wainwright," said he. "I'm a stowaway, sir, and I'd like some supper." No penniless adventurer was Carroll Livingston Wainwright Jr., 8, but a scion of Manhattan's socialite Livingstons, de Peysters, Wainwrights, great-grandson of Jay Gould, lineal descendant of Peter Stuyvesant. Month ago his mother, divorced from his father, fetched Carroll to Bermuda to live with her and her new husband, Sir Hector Macneal. Last week Carroll walked...
...June 11, 1918, the St. Stephan, flagship of the Austrian Navy, was attacked in the Adriatic by Italian torpedo boats. A torpedo found its mark and the St. Stephan began to list and sink with terrible rapidity. Frantic Austrian sailors are to be seen clambering up her steep deck and over onto her almost horizontal side. At that point the ship quivers convulsively, shakes many of them off into the water. Others manage to stay on the St. Stephan's upside-down hull as she turns completely over. Finally she and they go down together in a great swirl...
...were ready, assembled on the deck," wrote Lord Minto, "but no one appeared to represent the Bombay Government. We had expected an official reception. Our surprise was great when the pilot arrived with a message that the official landing had been canceled...
...crew to make a search drill, did not tell them why. When they failed to find anything, he stood anxiously on the bridge, waited watch in hand. Noon came & went. Nothing happened. Claret had about decided that it was a false alarm when at 12:30 the forward deck suddenly erupted. By some miracle the bomb had been planted on top of a small amount of ordinary freight, had failed to set off the tons of TNT aboard. Captain Claret and the Minnehaha sailed safely...