Word: decking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Somewhere in the past, Ben Hogan learned to "shuffle" a deck of cards. Occasionally, he shows the boys some of his sleight-of-hand tricks, by way of explaining why he never plays poker with them...
President-elect Prio and the Auténticos also got a majority in Congress. But the minority might be lively. Among the new senators: moonfaced ex-Dictator Batista, who had directed his campaign from a deck chair in Daytona Beach, Fla., and was expected to return to Cuba in September...
...Detroit, Mrs. Harold S. Howe got a divorce when she complained that her husband proposed to decide between her and his girl friend by drawing cards, but didn't have nerve enough to cut the deck...
...second race, Eliot and Adams were deck and deck in the stretch when a Gold Coaster caught a crab, enabling the hard-pressed Mastodons to win by a length. Their time of 4:26 was the fastest of the day. Dudley's creaking, leaking hull finished third by about six lengths...
Quickly following up tomorrow's contest, the 150's face their letter meet next Saturday when they take to the oars against Yale and Princeton in hopes of maintaining a hold on the Bowditch Cup. But the big regatta is on deck for the following weekend at Princeton in the Wright Cup competition where Cornell, Columbia, Penn, and M.I.T. as Well as the Elis and the Tigers, will be vying to wrest the trophy from Cambridge...