Word: decking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commodore. The boss of this crack crew is a ruddy, restive 50-year-old with twinkling china-blue eyes and eloquent white brows, who is more at home in a diving suit or on a burning deck than behind his Washington desk. No Annapolis man, Commodore Sullivan studied architecture at M.I.T., entered the Navy in World War I and stayed...
...most fascinating periods of his varied life. A few years ago, in another autobiographical chapter called In the Mill (TIME, Aug. 11, 1941), Masefield showed that he could distill romance even from the job he once held in a Yonkers, N.Y. carpet factory (1895). With a deck instead of a rug under his feet, Britain's 67-year-old Poet Laureate puts his memories, in pure and simple descriptive prose, to better use than ever. Like its great predecessor Life on the Mississippi (which Author Mase field has reread once a year for decades), New Chum has the freshness...
...hurricane of piercing whistles, pipes and clanging bells. He labored away on some engine (he was assured it was a pump) until his arms hung like strings; he hauled on a rope as thick as his ankle-hauled so well that until his head hit the deck some yards away he didn't know that his 80 mates were hauling in the opposite direction...
...Zeke (old-type Zero) dropped a delayed-action bomb which penetrated the Bunker Hill's flight deck, went out through the ship's side and burst over the water. But the Zeke itself crashed on the after half of the carrier's deck, crowded with 34 loaded planes, ready to go. That kindled a raging fire. Then a Judy (dive bomber) dropped a 500-pounder through the flight deck, and crashed into the base of the island structure. The Bunker Hill's fight for life...
What really upset the Post's editorialist was an earful from his niece in the Waves: "She hits the deck at 0600, goes aboard the Navy Building at 0800, mounts the ladder to the third deck and reports to the skipper. ... So far as we can make out her office is called for short Comcincsnafbabu. ... All in all, she finds the Navy pretty rugged. When she quits, or we should say is returned to inactive duty, we're afraid she'll bring along a lot of that naval doubletalk. We really don't want...