Word: decking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salesman. Little is told about him, but it is soon plain that he is close to insanity and that his special aberration, like that of Lolita's Humbert Humbert, involves young girls. As his boat approaches the island, he sees a girl of seven or so on the deck, and in his mind a hallucination forms in which the child becomes a sexual victim...
Plymouth boasts an optional, Imperial-like spare-tire compartment on the sloping rear deck. Dealers expect that one new feature will sell well to women and oldsters: swivel front seats that make it simpler to get in and out. Chicago's Fohrman Motors has had 100 nibbles from potential customers for Chrysler Corp. cars, 90 of them for station wagons. A record 28% of Plymouth's '58 output went to station wagons, and Plymouth dealers talk hopefully of 40% to 45% station-wagon sales this year. The new DeSoto made its debut in the press last week...
...Minutes after it had surfaced off California's Point Mugu. the Navy's conventionally powered submarine Grayback launched a stubby-winged turbojet missile from its deck, quietly slipped back under the waves. With chase and control planes following closely. Chance Vought's Regulus II flew a guided, circuitous 200-mile route to Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, where because of a landing-gear malfunction, it burned up on landing. But the landing was a technicality : the business version of Regulus II will pack a nuclear warhead on a 1,000-mile range, will give...
...Goren system revolves around the fact that there are 40 high-card points in a deck. An opening suit bid requires 13 points, a bid is mandatory at 14 points, a partnership with 26 points should make game in a major suit (29 are needed in a minor suit), partners with 33 points should have a little slam, and 37 is the magic number for a grand slam...
...HOWIE, by Phoebe Ephron, moved from Boston to Broadway riding an unplanned gale of publicity: the quiz show scandals. Howie (Albert Salmi) is a hulking ex-deck ape, the kind of guy who knows everything except when to shut up. He finishes his mother-in-law's Double-Crostic, his father-in-law's sentences and the neighbors' bridge bids-in short, the perfect quiz contestant. But when his sister-in-law (Patricia Bosworth) helps con him into going on a quiz show, he refuses $96,000 after he discovers that his opponent has got a fast...