Word: decking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike of 2,000 AFL deck officers operating from Gulf and Atlantic coast ports, which threatened to tie up all shipping in the region, was postponed last night on the plea of government mediators. The strike had been called for midnight...
Harvard's "varsity" crew placed third in a field of three in the first annual Union Boat Club fall regatta yesterday morning. M.I.T.'s varsity won in 3:49 over the three-quarter mile course, nosing out the Union Boat Club by less than a deck length, while the Crimson's entry finished two lengths back...
...extremely exciting. Most of this second half of "Task Force" consists of actual battle scenes filmed by the Navy; they are reminiscent of the wartime "Fighting Lady." the scenes which show a busy combat formation center deep inside the carrier are intensely interesting, and the views of the carrier deck, jammed from side to side with blazing aircraft against a backdrop of explosions and tracers in the deep blue sky, are unforgettable. Cooper and the other actors are skilfully blended into these newsreels between flashes of exploding Zeroes and miles of cloud-covered ocean...
Dancing, like pingpong, is a difficult game on a lurching deck, but 500 pretty women on a boat were not to be wasted. Students practiced square dances in the daytime and danced them at night, waltzed on the open deck, and learned new steps from the crew. Where there are women and beer, there is also song: the ships' pianos were rarely quiet. Barber shop mixed with the classics...
...balmy summer nights were much too nice to spend below decks, so many evenings were taken up with quiet outdoor amusements. Lifeboats were rated excellent substitutes for the parlor sofa or the back seat of the family car, and it was rumored that some of the blanket rolls on the boat deck were cood...