Word: decking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sections. The old Arkansas, with the heat 133° in her engine room, vainly chased three hostile cruisers who shipped out of range at 32 knots. At dusk another heavy Black column was sighted and viciously attacked by light sea craft in a night engagement. They completely demolished the flying deck of the Black's Langley, thus gaining for the Blues undisputed air control. Thereafter, fighting re solved itself into a series of disjointed engagements...
...Morgan went to the rail, smiled, said: "No, not even one minute." Thus he exposed himself to Photographer Wil letts. Then he heard the shutter snap and, now not smiling, fled along the deck...
Fast women and slow ponies are known to have wrought ruin on many a man. In Illinois last week, nimble-fingered men and a deck of cards brought disgrace to a woman. The woman is Mrs. Myrtle Tanner Blacklidge, longtime supporter of Senator Deneen, who got her the job of collector of Internal Revenue for the district of northern Illinois. The story of how she happened to lose $207,000 in paper profits at a Springfield faro game, plus $50,000 in cash loaned her by Edward R. Litsinger, also a Deneenman and member of the Cook County Board...
...period in which to coal, ammunition, clean and paint ship before sailing for the Caribbean. No week-end leave was given. Sailors feared that their regular "Christmas leave," already reduced in the submarine flotilla from 15 to 13 days, would be abolished. Sunday morning a detail was piped on deck to finish painting ship...
...these circumstances," announced the Admiralty, "thirty seamen so far forgot their duties as to remain below and shut themselves in when ordered to parade on deck for duty. ... In consequence, the men were arrested and taken in custody to the naval barracks...