Word: decking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began his floe-by-floe report. Wet snow had been melting as it fell and, about midafternoon, sun stabbed through the overcast. Behind Stevens' voice, listeners heard the babble of some 250 sourdoughs and Indians excitedly looking for signs of the breakup. Suddenly, like a carrier flight deck in heavy seas, the great mass of ice heaved and fell. A finger of water slithered across the ice and a moment later jagged, crashing floes crunched downstream. No radio audience had ever before heard anything like it. KFAR in its first coverage of the icebreak had scored again...
Wearing a long-billed flight cap, the President toured the hangar deck, put-putted around on a tractor, climbed up to the island, then went below on another tour to sick bay, engine room, bakery, and finally to a brief stop at the soda fountain.. By mid-afternoon Press Secretary Charley Ross had developed a bad case of foot blisters. Harry Truman was still fresh and going more places...
Gleaming white in peacetime paint, the Army transport Thomas H. Barry eased out from Manhattan's Pier 84, nosed down the Hudson to the sea. Aboard her, goggly with excitement, 349 Army wives & children milled through the maze of corridors and companionways, clustered on deck for photographers, clung to the rail with last, fluttering farewells. The first contingent of service families was off to join the occupation forces in Europe...
...only casualty in this involved process was Lockett, who had to interview Giannini on the wide-open sun deck of his hotel and on the unsheltered Florida beaches. "Oh," said Giannini, "you'll tan." Lockett knew better. As usual, he just burned and peeled...
...Remember," said Horatio Nelson, as he lay dying on the quarter-deck of the Victory, "I leave Lady Hamilton as a legacy to my King and country that they will give her an ample provision to maintain her rank...