Word: decking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Considerable top hamper fell to the deck. The action was then broken off. The Admiral trimmed ship and hauled himself off the reef with his kedge, and stood off majestically down the corridors of the Senate Office Building...
...sublieutenant in the Fleet Air Arm. In five years he won a citation for dive-bombing attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz, a D.S.C. for sinking a Japanese destroyer. On Aug. 9, 1945, five days before war's end, he skimmed off the flight deck of the carrier Formidable, led an eight-plane attack on Japanese warships outside Tokyo Bay. Tearing through heavy flak, he piloted his riddled, blazing fighter to within 50 feet of his target, bagged his second Jap destroyer before he plummeted to his death...
...list of witnesses was impressive. First on deck will be officers who were on the scene at the time, i.e., Admiral Kimmel and General Short, followed by Admiral James Otto Richardson, stubborn prewar advocate of the theory that the Japs would be hard to beat, who was succeeded by the more optimistic Admiral Kimmel ten months before Pearl Harbor...
...youngster pulled the wrong lever; it released a two-ton life raft which crashed to the deck below, miraculously injuring nobody else. But he lost a finger in the process...
Passengers in the new ships will be coddled with air-conditioned cabins with private baths, plenty of deck space, swimming pools, and a weekly service (v. the prewar fortnightly schedule) to the Panama Canal and down the west coast to Chile. By doubling the number of sailings, Grace will carry nearly as many passengers as it did before the war. Deliveries of the new ships will begin some time in February...